Don’t you love Christmas? What, you don’t? A lot of us have a love-hate relationship with the holidays: love, because it is supposed to be a great time of celebration with family and friends; hate, because it is often filled with stress over expectations and sadness that things aren’t the way they should be. With…
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Muse on Monday – December 8, 2025
For most of my life, I haven’t really known my neighbors. We might say hi in passing but nothing more. I do know the neighbors on both sides of us where we are currently and we get along well, so that’s a blessing. Bad neighbors, on the other hand, are a nightmare since there is…
Muse on Monday – December 1, 2025
For this week’s story prompt, I have a dilemma situation where there isn’t necessarily a right answer. Story Prompt: December 1, 2025 You find a baby alone at a bus stop. There are a lot of factors that could change the situation. For example, what time of day/year is it? What is the weather? Who…
Muse on Monday – November 24, 2025
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Muse on Monday – September 22, 2025
Sometimes we might do something impulsive, like do a lot of baking late at night. Maybe it’s because we’re stressed or to take our mind off something worrying. Maybe guests are coming suddenly. There could be a lot of reasons. Story Prompt: September 22, 2025 Write a story about baking late at night. You could…
The Green-Walled Treehouse 