Nobody really sees me. I’m just the boy cleaning up spilled French fries and wiping spilled ketchup and nugget dipping sauce off the tables. There is a high level of invisibility with that job. But I see them. It is like watching snapshots of other worlds coming in. You see them for an instance and…
Category: Realistic
Ate Hidilyn
Ate Hidilyn Tala was getting frantic. She had lost one of her tsinelas. It had fallen off her foot as she was running along the path down to her house, and although it was pink with light-green straps, it was nowhere to be found. It was too dark to see but she could not bear…
Muse on Monday – August 9, 2021, Featuring “Friday Night in the Box”
I hope everyone is having a good week so far. Are you feeling creative? Is your muse active? Scroll down to read Friday Night in the Box or read below for this week’s writing prompt. The Muse on Monday challenge is to write a story of your own based on the prompt below. You can…
Muse on Monday – August 2, 2021, Featuring “My Street Artist”
Welcome to the first Monday of August. The summer is going fast. Happy Republic Day to everyone in North Macedonia. I hope you have a wonderful holiday. A shout out to Nova International School in Skopje and their Writing Pearls project. Every year they publish a book of short stories written by their students. Scroll…
Random Birthday Generator
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…
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…
Muse on Monday – May 31, 2021, Featuring “Homework Stones”
Welcome to a bran new week. Last week was Victoria Day in Canada, and today is Memorial Day in the US. This is the time of year for holidays. If you’re in the US, hopefully you have the day off and have time to write a story! The challenge of Muse on Monday is to…
First Flight
First Flight I look out the window, down at an engine so big I could stand up inside it. Of course it has to be big to move something as big as a building: a building that will be flying miles up in the air in a few minutes. I tighten my seat belt. This…
Muse on Monday – April 26, 2021, Featuring “Saad’s Planet”
Welcome back to Muse on Monday! The challenge is to write a story of your own based on the prompt below. If you’re 18 years old or younger, you can submit it using this link for a chance to have it published next Monday when the new prompt comes out. You just need to submit…
The Green-Walled Treehouse 