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…
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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 – November 11, 2024
There is one aspect of writing which many people try and many people, including famous writers, do badly. This is writing child characters, and the younger the age, the harder it is to do well. This is because although it’s tempting to write children as small adults, the world of children is much smaller, both…
Muse on Monday – October 28, 2024
It is the last week of October, which means Halloween is just a few days away. I have never done much for Halloween, even when I was a kid, but I do like creepy stories and the season when it is getting darker and colder is a great time for that. Story Prompt: October 28,…
Muse on Monday – October 30, 2023
Have you ever seen The Blair Witch Project? It was a very low budget movie about people trying to find a witch living in the forest. Since it was so low budget, you never saw the witch or really any action. There were no special effects or any violence on the screen. However, what it…
Muse on Monday – October 23, 2023
It might seem strange, but horror stories don’t have to be scary, at least not as some as others. They can even be funny. If you do a search for horror comedy movies, you’ll find quite a few. In these cases, horror comedies are stories that deal with scary things but do it in an…
Muse on Monday – October 16, 2023
A lot of horror stories or thrillers are set in a particularly scary location, such as an old house or an abandoned mental institution. However, anywhere can be scary. Here are some things that make a place scary. A story only needs one element of danger, but often has more than one. For instance, Jurassic…
Muse on Monday – October 9, 2023
Welcome to the second Monday of October and the 2nd week of our series of prompts on scary stories. Last week we looked at technology, but today we’ll look at people. What makes a person scary? Obviously if they want to hurt you or others, but sometimes it’s just the way they think or behave….
Muse on Monday – October 2, 2023
It’s the beginning of October, which is traditionally a time when people think about scary things, due to Halloween coming at the end of the month. There are many different types of scary stories. Some examples might be: These are all types of horror stories, but there are also thrillers, which can be scary but…
Muse on Monday – October 31, 2022
Today is Halloween and it’s the time when people often watch scary movies or read scary stories. However, what is actually scary is different from person to person. In our culture, most scary stories are about monsters, ghosts, evil people, aliens or technology gone wrong. Still, what is most terrifying is the atmosphere that the…
The Green-Walled Treehouse 