Story Ideas

-the protagonist is a self-proclaimed writer

-artificial intelligence solves climate change by killing all of the humans

-no one returns home from a night out in the city

-a mother doesn’t remember her daughter’s birthday

-the protagonist travels around the world

-the protagonist can’t escape themself no matter how far they run

-a college student forgets to respond to an email

-the world isn’t scary, for a brief moment

-the protagonist waits to find something that will make her feel

-a group of friends are eating animal crackers and they are very

high and the animals are alive

-the protagonist learns to have empathy, even for people who litter cigarette butts

-a writer publishes a collection of short stories that no one reads

-the protagonist is someone who thinks she experiences the world differently from other people

-humans never developed verbal language and communicate via electricity and dolphins

-the protagonist tries to write about her childhood but she can’t remember anything

-a robot and a human meet and find a common ground

-the protagonist lists every terrible thing she has ever done

-the protagonist tells someone something hurtful just to watch how they react

-the story was written too early; the protagonist wasn’t ready

-the world is ending and no one believes it

-a girl gets an oil change without her dad telling her to

-doctors can’t tell if a nun is psychotic or possessed

-the protagonist uses a list of story ideas to make a story

-a story is written from the perspective of a prescription painkiller but the pills weren’t created to understand addiction

-the protagonist wants to write a story but can’t find the words

-a teenager is attracted to her English teacher and her boyfriend’s sister

-wherever the protagonist goes, she finds herself there, always the same


Allie Zapson is a junior studying writing and psychology like every other Sarah Lawrence student. She loves telling people she’s a writer and shoplifting from CVS while telling CVS employees that she’s a writer.