Sometimes I like to write a story that is all dialogue. It’s very in-the-moment, but obviously it can be challenging since there is no exposition or description to help explain things. And you can’t have more than two characters or you’ll lose track of who is speaking. Another interesting challenge is to write a story…
Flower Flirt
Flower Flirt Everything online is AI now. You can’t find love in that environment. You need old school. Very old school. A 3D-printed bouquet of flowers arrives at my door, each petal perfectly recreated in polymer. I open my FlowerFlirt app and scan it. -Pink Rose: 10”, 4 leaves, 8 thorns -Peony: 9.5”, no leaves…
Muse on Monday – November 17, 2025
You could consider this a silly prompt, although in the end, the tone of any story is totally up to you. Any prompt can lead to a funny, sad, scary or heartwarming story. You can even make it realistic if you put your mind to it. Story Prompt: November 17, 2025 Write a story where…
It’s Not the End of the World
It’s Not the End of the World The pool water felt cool, the soft lapping probably the last sound I’d ever hear. It was okay. I’d had a good run. We all had. The horizon blossomed as a second sun seemed to descend. If the estimates were right, the shock wave would hit in ten…
Muse on Monday – November 10, 2025
I’ve always loved detailed models and have had a fascination with stories like The Borrowers, where tiny people live inside the walls of a normal-sized house. Part of the fun is seeing how they overcome obstacles that are easy for us (getting up onto the table is like climbing a mountain, for example), but the…
Muse on Monday – November 3, 2025
People act in different ways on a bus or train or other means of public transportation. Most people are on their phones or reading, or sleeping but sometimes people can strike up conversations with the person next to them. This can go a lot of ways. One thing about public transportation is that the people…
Book, Possessed
Book, Possessed My partner Mickey and I were on our regular beat when we got called to a bakery around mid-morning. It was the one on 5th with the croissants the size of your head. We arrived to find a book lying on the ground and a small crowd around it like it was a…
Muse on Monday – October 27, 2025
I’m just getting back from a trip, which is why I haven’t been posting lately. I was going to schedule posts while I was gone, but…oh well. Normally, in October I like to do prompts about scary stories since it’s that type of season. There are a lot of things that could be scary, depending…
Muse on Monday – October 6, 2025
Last week I didn’t post a Muse on Monday since I was feeling sick. It wasn’t anything serious, but it’s hard to do some things when you’re not feeling well. Of course there are a lot of types of sickness. In stories, they are handled in different ways: There are other types too, of course,…
Tete-a-Tetris
Tete-a-Tetris This is an odd story, I’ll admit, but I like to be experimental sometimes. I was wondering what it would be like to work inside a game of Tetris. By the way, for the word count, I counted each block image as a word. 🙂
The Green-Walled Treehouse 