The how, what, and where, of trapping your own muse — How does one capture the elusive muse? Should you have your own or adopt? No need to adopt, because you are perfectly capable of raising your very own muse! Start an idea notebook, right now! Now! If you don't like that, use the voice recorder on your phone. Ideas do not come only once a day. You…

Where can you get joy when you have lost it? — If only there were a wizard at the local mental health facility! Today, I learned a thing or two about the meaning of joy. We may all take this feeling for granted. Did you know that you could lose this elusive joy feeling? Yes, it can one day just float up into the sky, like a lost helium balloon. Then, what does…

From the private digital space diary of Aubrey Melroy, who was one of the volunteer military personnel on flight BEAMA to planet Selius and back: We landed on planet Selius right on schedule. This planet was discovered in the year 2035. …

How will the Universe remember you when Earth is finally gone? — “Yes, humans are the smartest animals on Earth. Only a human being can think himself to death.”- Author Ripley J. Cloud Naomi10-G3 gazes through her Spaceshifter window, as a fragmented menagerie of memories flow, from her memory chip. Like a porcelain doll with blue marbled eyes, she turns a smooth…

Memory Lane ends with a nail, a hammer, and a teardrop… — I hung my mom's picture today. There she is…wearing her favorite sunhat with a floppy brim. There is a delicate, braided, rope flower, around the top of the brim. Old fashioned and just her style. The blue waves of the brim, curved like an ocean wave, over her kind eyes. …

Episode 2: “The Limb of Unknown Child”- This episode takes us to a haunted cemetery in my hometown in Iowa. Oakdale Memorial Gardens Cemetery is known for several different haunts. Especially the one surrounding the old orphan graves. — Entering the ornate, wrought iron gates of this paranormal playground, one is struck by the beauty of this cemetery. Meticulously landscaped with gorgeous flowers, it boasts a serene pond, which gives a false sense of normalcy.

The legend of a haunted tombstone that waits for you, in the blackest part of night — This is my first episode of Haunts in Real Time: It is midnight, during a raging storm, and you made the mistake of trusting your teenage friends. They tricked you into coming out here to Riverside Cemetery. A cemetery tracing back to 1851 and the known home of the local…

Part 1: Before Vikings, lived the Mossykings. With the opening of a portal, all the magic of Wanderlily was exposed, along with the green wars… — It all began innocently enough, with a little girl's love of fairy gardens. Helgeena was eight, and eight is a perfect number in the world of Wanderlily. Many wonderful things are shaped like an eight there. There are roads that loopty loop, just like an eight, all through the forest…

Where the food is to literally die for! Something in the basement has a taste for the meat here on Earth. It can’t wait to go back and tell its friends! Unless Baron can stop it…before it’s too late! — Baron felt his sanity spiraling out from him, like a ribbon in the wind. It whirled and twirled like a tattered kite in a storm, whose delicate string was slowly slipping from his trembling fingers.