60-Second Story!

You need:

Imagination + 60-Second Timer

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Read the story prompt

Tell your story in 60 seconds

Try again with a new twist!

Your challenge is to tell a complete story in just 60 seconds.

Get ready: Look at today's story prompt. It might be an opening sentence, an unusual situation, a picture or a collection of words.

Take a moment to imagine what happens. You don't need to plan every sentence, but it helps to have a beginning, a middle and an ending in mind.

Tell your story: Start a 60-second timer and speak aloud. Introduce the situation, develop the action and try to reach a satisfying conclusion before time runs out.

Don't rush or worry about perfect grammar. If you get stuck, improvise! Unexpected twists often make the best stories.

Have another go: Try telling the same story differently. Change the ending, introduce another character or experiment with a different mood.

Extra challenge: Record yourself, listen back and try again. Can you make the story clearer, more expressive or more entertaining without making it longer?

Let's Begin!

At the station, I picked up a suitcase that looked exactly like mine. It wasn’t.

Imagine you're travelling when you discover you've taken somebody else's suitcase. You open it just enough to realise that its contents are very unusual.

Your challenge: Tell the story of what happens next in 60 seconds. Give us a beginning, a complication and an ending.

Decide what's inside the suitcase and why it matters.
Take a short moment to plan your story. Then start a one-minute timer and tell it aloud.
Tell it again, this time making the ending clearer or more surprising.

Extra challenge: Make the owner of the suitcase sound completely ordinary at first — then reveal something unexpected about them.

The Wrong Suitcase

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