A birthday is a day to be yourself. Kerri, being quite random, decided this was the best way to celebrate her birthday. Her last year of high school, she learned coding just enough to write a random birthday generator. On her nineteenth birthday, she came back to her dormitory room after dinner in the university…
Author: David Stewart
I am a writer of anything quirky and weird. I love most genres of fiction and in each there are stories that I would consider "my kind of story".
Writing Corner: The Hyphen
The Hyphen I mentioned hyphens briefly in my post on the dash, but I am going to look at them a little more here, especially in a unique way they can be used in fiction. A hyphen is the shortest of all the lines used in punctuation. It is used when two or more words…
Submission Updates
Happy Wednesday everyone and a happy Eid to everyone who is celebrating that at the moment. I hope you stay safe and enjoy the time with your family. I wanted to give a few updates about the Green-Walled Treehouse. 1. We have decided to open all submissions to all ages. Originally a few of the…
Wishbelly
Roland went to see the Wishbelly when his family finally ran out of money to give the doctors for his sick father. Not that the doctors were helping, but they did provide Hope, which is a key ingredient to Life, as his grandmother said. The week after the money was almost all gone and it…
Muse on Monday – July 19, 2021, Featuring “Half the Equation”
It is Monday and we are over halfway through July. It’s going fast, to be sure. Scroll down to read “Half the Equation” about a pair of ambitious young entrepreneurs hoping to make it big. Also, if you are (or know of) an aspiring writer between 8 and 18, check out our Summer 2021 Young…
Writing Corner: World Building
World Building Story World: the setting of a story The nice thing about fiction is that you, the writer, make the rules. When you write non-fiction, you are (hopefully) limited by facts. But with fiction, you can change whatever you want to fit the story. This is especially true with the setting, or story world….
Peril Squad: The Beginning
Peril Squad: The Beginning Peril Squad began in the government organization SAP (Secret Adventure Protocol) because of a computer glitch. A member of the IT department was writing a program to email everyone the daily lunch menu and accidentally sent an email to three operatives and offered them a job. The first was Tatiana Cotton,…
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Muse on Monday – July 12, 2021, Featuring “Never Leave the City”
Happy Monday! Scroll down to read Never Leave the City, a story based on last week’s prompt about a creepy pickpocket at the South Pole. The challenge of Muse on Monday is to write a short story and use the prompt below. We’ve decided to eliminate the age limit on all submissions, so anyone can…
Writing Corner: Cliches
Cliches “Cliche” is a word that comes from French, so it is pronounced in the French way, which is “klee-SHAY”. You might see it written with an accent on the “e”, like this: cliché. That is how it is spelled in French but since we don’t use accents in English, it is okay to leave…
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