I need a good short story idea. My teacher likes odd but interesting things. Any ideas?

I wrote a couple short stories from the prespective of something instead of someone. They turned out fairly interesting. The one that sticks in my memory I wrote for a college level creative writing class (I'm sure it wouldn't be appropriate for high school) but it was about a tense situation between boyfriend and girlfriend written from the perspective of the condom... it was written starting in the boyfriends drawer... hearing him talk to himself about needing to get laid but not wanting to put up with her any more than that... and then he went over to her place and had sex with her, and left the condom on the floor in the corner, and the condom is listening to her cry herself to sleep feeling used, and the condom relates to the girl in that aspect... just tossed aside once he's done with it. Different perspectives make it fun to write stories because you can describe things in different ways, that might sound un-natural to describe from a human perspective.

A incredibly handsome mad geneticist who is an expert in genetically engineering creatures. He has mastered the skill of cloning, genetically modifying animals, and performed experiments on himself to become smarter, stronger, and immortal. The thing is, he's just a high school student. The girls want him, the guys want to be like him, but he couldn't care less. His past experience has triggered a hatred for humans so strong that he wishes to eliminate the entire human race. To do so, the boy engineered super creatures, with super intelligence, super agility, regenerative abilities, you name it. He unleashes his creations upon humanity as he ssits in his room secretly controlling the minds of the creatures through a neural device. Along the way, he develops relationships with five possible love interests who all go to the same high school as him, his childhood friend, a girl who follows him around (or stalks him), his crush since the beginning of his high school years, a beautiful girl with super abilities that he clones who becomes his loyal servant, and a fellow scientists/student at the same school that he works with who at the beginning only wants to use him for making her some test subjects and wants to use him as a test subject as well but later on falls in love with him. Her true agenda is unknown.

What about a race car driver sitting in his race car minutes before his next race reflecting on his life as though his entire life has been quick paced and rushed like a race? Or the perspective of a tree in a popular park reflecting on something the tree has seen, such as a lost child or a gang fight. To impress your teacher, don't do the same old first person narrative from the perspective of a person, change up the narration or the perspective. Have someone else telling the story or have the story told through a letter or a diary if you are going to tell it from the perspective of a human. Be creative and make sure the story has a beginning, middle, and end.

-The war on nature is going from bad to worse. Nature is opening up new fronts for their offensives and gets into the terrorist buisness... - A story where it is the same time from first to last page. You touch down into dozens of peoples mind and build up a story through what they are doing in that few seconds. -A terrorist group strikes at your school and takes you as hostages. What would every one do? Who will be the hero that saves the day for you? Johan

Try this: look through a magazine you fancy, or for online news articles, or through a newspaper and look for a situation/article that intrigues you. Ask yourself 'What if?' 'Suppose?' and 'Why?' while pertaining to the article. Add you own characters - make it your own story - and have fun. (I'm sure you can find loads of odd yet compelling story ideas in the above sources I listed.)

How about some little ideas for helping you figure out what to write? Irony is good for short stories. Because they're short, you want to get the point across and there's nothing like an ironic situation that can do that. Write something that has a bigger meaning to it, like Aesop's fables. Do you like scary stuff? Go Poe-ish with your writing. The title could be something weird, like, "The Angst of the Plastic Mannequin". Then you could write from the point of view of a broken-hearted mannequin, whether it lives in a store, belongs to a tailor, etc. I don't mean actually use that example, but sometimes short stories that aren't about people are easier to write because possibilities are endless and you won't battle with yourself about making characters realistic. Hell, the mannequin could be an alien stuck on earth. Ha ha!

How about trying to represent the lonliness felt by a young school kid when his friends argue with him and he finds himself alone. You could show it by writing about the argument and then having the boy wake up the next day to find that he is the last person on earth! What would he do? How would he feel? I think this would be bitter sweet - at first he really enjoys it and takes advantage of having empty streets and being able to do what he likes. But soon he finds that he misses people. Obviously it has to end with people coming back and the argument being resolved - BUT I'll leave the ending to you. (One tip; the 'it was all a dream thing' is a bit tired now so think of something original!!!

well what intrests you? if you like history try writting a fictional story about a time and place in history. I have written two short stories one based in WWII and the other around the civil war. another idea is to write about a holiday (chirstmas and halloween are easiest imo) like the 4th of july or something and make it like a mystery or some other interesting effect that makes sense to the context. hope this helps

write about how nature is punishing us back for pollution and stuff through global warming and other natural disasters. it isn't odd though but i think it would be a good topic to write about.