Welcome to another week and another Muse on Monday! Today’s prompt is what I call a one-piece prompt, in that it gives you one piece of a story premise but leaves enough room for you to fill in the details about setting, genre and plot. Story Prompt: June 16, 2025 Write a story about a…
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Muse on Monday – June 9, 2025
Story Prompt: June 9, 2025 Write a story based on the picture below: This is a picture of the county courthouse in Erie, PA. I’m not sure why it’s lit up blue, but it makes a cool effect. If you write a story with this prompt, send me a link to your story on your…
The Sweet Life
The Sweet Life The air was filled with delicious smells and the sounds of nightmares. The Hive was in port, that wandering ship of bees the size of Shetland ponies. “Where’s your brother?” Mom asked. We watched through the slats of the blinds as two drones buzzed by, tattooed and addled on mead. I shrugged….
Muse on Monday – September 16, 2024
It’s getting into the fall when I usually start traveling for work again. This week, I thought I would look back and take a picture from one of my trips to Mongolia a few years ago. This is from the Chinggis Khan museum near his birthplace. Story Prompt: September 16, 2024 Write a story based…
Muse on Monday – April 29, 2024
It’s almost May, which means it’s almost summer. Where did the spring go, right? As the students start to finish up the school year and go on summer vacation, it is a time of relaxation. The Green-Walled Treehouse will still be here and this is a good chance to do some summer writing. Story Prompt:…
Muse on Monday – March 11, 2024
Welcome to the beginning of a brand new week. I don’t know what the weather there is like, but here it is sometimes cold and snowy and sometimes warm. That is the normal craziness of March in this area. Story Prompt: March 11, 2024 Write a story based on the picture below. This is a…
Waking Zippy
Waking Zippy Road maintenance isn’t what it used to be. When my dad had this job, there were downed trees after a storm and occasionally a mudslide or some fallen rocks. Nothing that required biology, or worse, psychology. It was 8:00 am, right around peak rush hour, when I got the call. “Hey, Juan, Zippy’s…
Muse on Monday – January 8, 2024
Happy Monday everyone. It’s a cold, wet sort of day here, so it’s a good day to be inside, hopefully with a warm drink wrapped up with a blanket. If possible. Story Prompt: January 8, 2024 Write a story based on the picture below This picture is one I took in Bogota, Colombia when I…
Muse on Monday – November 13, 2023
Sometimes when I need inspiration, I look at stock images. There are various random image generators online where you can see random stock photos. The trick is to find a picture with a story. There are a lot of nice pictures online but a picture of a flower, for example, doesn’t have much of a…
Muse on Monday – September 18, 2023
Good morning and happy Monday everyone. Today is the start of the Homeland Holidays in Chile, so if you are Chilean, eat an empanada for me. This week, the prompt is going to be a photo since we haven’t had one of those in a while. This is an interesting dragon lamp that I saw…
The Green-Walled Treehouse 