I don’t know about you, but this summer seems to be going fast. It seemed like it was just May and now it will be August in a few weeks. They say time flies when you’re having fun, but there are many reasons why time might seem to go slower or faster. Sometimes a year…
Letter Hats
Letter Hats Culture is unusual. People in other countries might look the same, but they do things you wouldn’t expect. Like a stop sign I saw with ARRET on it, but with a little hat on the “e”. I asked Camden, the neighborhood Google. “History,” he said. “They started dropping the “s” from words and…
Tremors from Eden
This story is based on the writing prompt from Muse on Monday – June 27. Tremors from Eden I still remember the first time I leaned against the wall and heard music. It was not complete: just like the trash I scavenged which was stripped of nutrients and value, the melody was undetectable and only…
Muse on Monday – July 4, 2022
It’s a new month and a new chance to do things differently. It’s a good idea to look at things in a different way, if only to see how you could improve things. This is a valuable skill for writers. If we only look at life from one perspective, we are missing so many other…
Muse on Monday – June 27, 2022
A lot of stories are about journeys since all stories are a journey of one kind of another, either moving from one place to another or growing or changing as a person. When we think of travel stories, they are usually big journeys over a lot of space. However, journeys of very short distances can…
A Universe of Five
A Universe of Five She counted to five, because there were only five things in the tiny cave that was her universe. The Bed, where she slept. The Hatch, where her food and water appeared while she slept. The Hole in the floor where the smelly stuff went that came out of her body. The…
Muse on Monday – June 13, 2022
I hope you have a good week. Here is a prompt you can use to write a story. Even if you don’t write it, down, think about what the story might look like. Where is the conflict? How does it end? If you think outside your normal patterns of thought, it can only broaden what…
Waterfell
This story is part of a weekly story challenge called Friday Fictioneers, where participants write a 100-word story based on a picture. Thank you to Fictioneers queen Rochelle for choosing my picture this week. This is from the Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil. I want to apologize for not being able…
Muse on Monday – June 6, 2022
One of the nice things about fiction is that you can write anything. Stories should be internally consistent and follow the rules you make for them, but beyond that, you are the creator of your own worlds. For example, I once wrote a story about a taxi driver who was a pigeon. The concept is…
Sapping Time
Sapping Time “I don’t see what the big deal is with GMOs anyway,” Mr. Watts said to assembled field trip. The children looked up at him, sucking on maple syrup lollipops from the gift shop. “Do you know that back in the old days, they would have to collect sap in buckets and then carry…
The Green-Walled Treehouse 