Favorite Foods: Animal Edition Grizzly Bear: Oh, I love salmon, you know that real fresh kind when they’re jumping up the waterfall all sleek and energetic and you grab it out of the air. That is soooo good. No, wait, blackberries. Those are the best, you know when it’s fall and the bushes are just…
Tell Me a Story
Tell Me a Story “Hmm. Okay, let’s see. The window. It just looks like a window, but every Halloween at midnight, it becomes a portal to the terrible world of Ba-Kyard. In the castle of Shed lives evil King Mower. Every week, King Mower comes out and runs around the kingdom, roaring and cutting off…
Kharkiv Classroom
This is story is based on the Muse on Monday prompt from September 4: Write a story about the first day of school. Make it unique. Kharkiv Classroom This is not how I imagined my first day of school. Most of the things we learned in the Education University don’t seem to apply here underground….
Muse on Monday – September 11, 2023
Happy Monday, everyone. Today is September 11, which is a somber day in the US because of the terrorist attack back in 2001. However, it is also New Year’s Day according to the Ethiopian calendar, so I will say Melkam Addis Amet! to you, which is “Happy New Year” in Amharic, the main language of…
The 4:00pm Rebels
The 4:00pm Rebels Classes at the Yusupov Memorial Assassin School were done for the day, even Professor Princip’s after-school pistol tutoring. Leon crept towards the back hedge with all the paranoia of youth’s first rebellion. He clutched the contraband tightly. The others were already in the hidden grove. “You got it?” Charles asked. Leon held…
Muse on Monday – September 4, 2023
Today is Labor Day in the United States and Canada, so hopefully if you live there, you have the day off today. However, in many places, this is also about the time when students are going back to school to start the new school year. The first day of school is a common feature in…
To Be Struck by Lightning
To Be Struck by Lightning Mikki had never been struck by lightning, which was a shame. She’d heard it gave you such a nice energy boost. She craved that now. She was 48,564 meters from home and her reserves stood at 6%. She chewed two 9-volt batteries with her tungsten teeth, sucking out every possible…
Muse on Monday – August 28, 2023
We’ve made it to the end of August and the end of the Muse on Monday’s summer series. Next week we’ll have a different type of prompt. Here is this week’s prompt: Story Prompt: August 28, 2023 Theme: Dreaming Genre: any Dreams are one of those weird things that we all have in common but…
First Day in the Trenches
First Day in the Trenches The first day of school was over. A group of shell-shocked first-years sat huddled together in the back of the restaurant. “I knew high school was hard, but . . .” “The twelfth-graders were huge! I honestly feared for my life during first period.” “One of them called me Fartin,”…
Lost in My Feelings
Lost in My Feelings I am lost in my feelings.I wonder what is my true self.I hear the child`s sobbing.I see a cold infant in the mirror.I want to show my true self.I am lost in my feelings. I pretend to be mature and sensible.I feel that time is passing too fast.I touch slipping through…
The Green-Walled Treehouse 