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Write a short story with AI

Turn an idea into an original short story of 300 to 800 words for kids, teens or adults, in the genre you choose; Anthropic's Claude AI writes it on our server.

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Your story appears here

A title and a complete story with a beginning, a turn and an ending.

Processed on our server · your idea is sent to Anthropic's AI to write the story and is not storedHow it works

How to use Story generator

  1. 1

    Describe your idea

    A sentence or two about who, where and what goes wrong is enough.

  2. 2

    Choose genre, reader and length

    Nine genres, for kids, teens or adults, at about 300 to 800 words.

  3. 3

    Pick who tells it

    A narrator, or the main character speaking in the first person.

  4. 4

    Write and read

    The story appears in under a minute; copy it, save it, or write another one.

Limits and Pro

Free: an idea of up to 600 characters, stories of about 300, 500 or 800 words, and 20 AI requests a day per connection, at most 5 a minute, shared by all the writing tools.

Pro raises the daily limit to 200 stories or other AI requests. See Pro

About Story generator

Every story starts with an idea, and sometimes that's all you have: a girl who finds a map, a robot that's afraid of the dark, a wedding where everything goes wrong. The story generator turns a sentence like that into a complete short story with a title, a beginning that hooks, a middle where something goes wrong or changes, and an ending that resolves it.

Choose the genre (adventure, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, fairy tale, funny, spooky, romance or everyday life), who it's for and how long it should be: about 300, 500 or 800 words. Stories for kids, aimed at ages 5 to 9, use simple words and gentle stakes with nothing more frightening than mild suspense, which makes them good for bedtime reading; teen and adult stories can take on bigger themes, though nothing graphic for teens. Have a narrator tell it, or the main character, speaking as “I”.

Stories are written by Claude, Anthropic's AI model, in the language of your idea unless you choose another, so an idea written in Uzbek gets an Uzbek story. The model is told to write its own prose rather than reproduce existing books, though familiar fairy-tale patterns will appear.

Use the stories for reading aloud, creative writing prompts, language practice or getting past writer's block. If you publish one, some platforms and competitions ask you to disclose AI-written text, and read it first: AI sometimes loses track of a detail between paragraphs.

Privacy

Your story idea and the genre, audience, length and narrator you picked are sent to our server and on to Anthropic's API when you press Write story, and the finished story comes straight back to this page. Neither the idea nor the story is kept on our side or written to logs, and Anthropic doesn't train on it. This browser remembers your choices, not your text.

Features

Nine genres

Adventure, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, fairy tale, funny, spooky, romance and everyday life.

Safe for young readers

Kids' stories use simple words, gentle stakes and warm endings.

Any language

Stories in the language of your idea, or in any of the sixteen in the menu.

Story generator: frequently asked questions

Are the stories suitable for children?
With Kids selected, stories are written for ages 5 to 9: simple language, gentle problems, no violence and nothing scarier than mild suspense, with a warm ending. Spooky becomes eerie rather than frightening. AI can still produce something you'd rather not read to your child, so skim the story first, as you would with any new book.
Can I publish or sell a story I generate?
You can use the text, but there are caveats. In many countries purely AI-generated text may not be protected by copyright, so others could reuse it too. Some platforms and competitions require you to disclose AI use, and some forbid it. The strongest position is to treat the story as a draft and rewrite it substantially in your own voice.
Can it continue a story or write a longer one?
Each request writes one complete story of up to about 800 words, and the generator doesn't remember earlier stories. To build something longer, describe the next part in the idea box, including the characters and what happened before, and generate it as its own story. For a novel-length project, use the results as scene sketches that you then write up yourself.
What should I put in the story idea?
A character, a place and a problem are enough: “a shy boy in a mountain village has to deliver a letter during a snowstorm”. Add names, the moral you want, or a detail that must appear, and the story will include them. The box takes up to 600 characters, so you can sketch a whole plot if you like.
Which languages can the story be written in?
Any of the sixteen in the Language menu, from English, Uzbek and Russian to Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese, or simply the language you wrote your idea in. Children's stories in Uzbek or Russian work well for reading practice; for a school assignment, check that the grammar and vocabulary suit the reader's level.

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