Story ideas

While I'm still on break from my novel, I decided I really needed to push myself to come up with more genre short story ideas. I'm bad at coming up with ideas, and even worse at following through with them and making something that actually has a plot, not simply an idea or situation. I admire the people I went to Odyssey with who could come up with great idea after idea. I've written a few non-genre pieces that I am relatively satisfied with, but when I try to write fantasy it has this way of getting long. Plots are either too insubstantial, or subplots start springing up like mushrooms. I came to the conclusion that I am more of a novelist than a short story writer by nature. Still, I need to challenge myself to write short fiction that is publishable quality.So I decided I would come up with ten ideas. I'm sort of cheating, because some of these are stories I actually had started already or in one case wrote a draft that's not really workable but I think I can mine some material out of it for a new piece. A few of them I've started in the last several days. Here is my list, with working titles where I have them:1. Maddie the Cat (a woman's bizarre relationship with a cat) - 351 words2. Something untitled involving a new kind of brothel - 0 words3. Moondust (a man's obsession with the moon) - wrote some notes and outline for this in my workbook4. Were-mouse (a jealous former boyfriend has a talent that allows him to spy on his ex) - 0 words5. The Dreaming Tree (modern-day fantasy with dryads - afraid it may be a novel chapter) - 1850 words6. The Great Bear (in the world of the novel, Aldric's ancestor has a run-in with Bjarnd) - 783 words7. Alfarinn's Quest (in the world of the novel, a young man goes on a shamanic journey) - 1356 words8. Jewel (rework of a magical realist piece I did at Odyssey) - draft of 5,000 words maybe 1/4 of those usable for new story9. The Singing Dog (flash piece that may take an absurdist turn) - 417 words10. Skeleton Dance (a blues musician and an interesting carving) - 218 wordsI'm not sure how many of those ideas are even workable, but at least I've got a jumping off place for some new fiction attempts.