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March Fiction Prompts Culled from the News

True stories that are strange enough to be fiction
Stuck on an idea for your next short story? Every now and then we gather news headlines that are strange enough to be fiction. Here’s a batch of headlines to get your creative juices flowing along with suggested genres:

Magical Realist Noir: Woman designs gun that turns her tears into bullets
Fashionable True Crime: Police discover 164k worth of cocaine inside man’s “rather snug” pants
Surrealist Romance: Woman finds a diamond in her hardboiled egg before getting married
Porcine-Apocalypse: Wild boars rampage through evacuated Japanese towns
Vampire Crime: Man robs blood bank while shouting “I’m hungry”
Relaxing Horror: Salon massages customers’ necks with giant snake
Canine Procedural: Cop dog captures three criminals in 90 minutes
Legal Metafiction: Lawyer’s pants catch on fire in the middle of arson trial
Oxford Comma Settles Overtime Dispute
