Back when I lived in Korea, I used to like to visit abandoned buildings. Sometimes you would be hiking through the woods and come across a house that had just been left as it was, sometimes with everything still in it. My wife and I explored an abandoned school one night with the textbooks and desks and everything left in place (plus creepy messages spray-painted on the walls, like “Don’t turn around”, but that often comes with the territory in abandoned places).
Abandoned buildings often have a creepy, melancholy air. Sometimes they are used for another purpose. I love reading stories where people are living in the ruins of a previous civilization and repurposing the buildings for other things.
Story Prompt: September 14, 2026
Write a story about an abandoned building.
If you write a story for this prompt, send me a link to your story on your own site, either in the comments or at info@greenwalledtreehouse.com.
Have a great week! TTFN
I love this. There’s one downtown by my dentist’s office with a huge sigh..KEEP OUT! Yet I’ve seen who look homeless as well as sinister come out one of the windows that are all broken and taped. It’s a part of New York they’ve yet to gentrify. Almost like it’s on another planet.
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It seems strange that there would be any buildings in New York that would remain vacant for long since the land is so valuable, you’d think they put up a new building fast, but I guess it really depends on the area of town.
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it’s like going back in time when you get off the train. It’s on the border of Chinatown so many Asians live there. Who knows why it’s still the way it’s always been.
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