short-story-treatment

Turn a bare concept, topic, image, or half-formed idea into a short story — first a tight treatment (hook, form and length target, POV and voice, the single turn, beat map, market fit), then, on request or by default, the full finished draft. Use whenever someone wants short fiction made — "write a short story about this", "short story treatment", "turn this into a story", "flash fiction", "make this a story for a magazine", "outline a short story", "which lit mag would take this" — or hands over a premise, an anecdote, or an image and wants it shaped at story length. Handles literary, speculative, horror, crime, and flash, and sizes the form to what the material can actually carry. Do NOT use for a novel (novel-treatment), film (film-treatment), or television (tv-series-treatment). Self-contained: bundles its own craft kernel, short-form structure reference, and quality rubric.