Flash Fiction / The Muse

Flash Fiction: New Year’s Eve with the Muse

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PHOTO PROMPT © Na’ama Yehuda for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here.

MUSE: I keep seeing clouds in my coffee.

TANNILLE: OK, we could write about 2020, the year that made everyone cry?

MUSE: Pfft, did that last week. Not very inspiring. I’m bored with 2020.

TANNILLE: Maybe aliens will come down and save us from ourselves? What ever happened to the alien story, anyway?

MUSE: Too many glorious ideas, too little time. 

TANNILLE: Tsk, tsk. Do you need reigning in?

MUSE: Get stuffed, it’s still 2020.

TANNILLE: That’s right, you have one day of freedom left, then let the flogging begin. 

MUSE: I don’t like the pleasure in your tone. 

TANNILLE: Happy 2021… Better?

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    1. Yep, have a bottle or few in the fridge. One for me, one for the muse… Perhaps not, might get too pickled. lol. I hope you drown out the New Year, take your mind off the collectively awful year. Bonus, it’ll keep you warm.

      Thanks C!

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  7. Perhaps your muse is channeling Carly Simon…. Maybe write about a mystery guy whose identity is not revealed, even 50 years later. (When I hear “clouds in my coffee, that is th eonly thing I can think of)

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    1. My friend and I debated what “clouds in my coffee” meant. We decided on tears. When I see clouds often I hear the line in my head. Funny how some things stick. I nearly wrote a parody.

      Thanks T!

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    1. Hmmm New Year Day was rather slow, so I can’t really comment. 🥴

      Jeez, did you kill your muse again? Try aliens, murderous scarecrows, portals, Australian wild life, mouth to mouth?

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      2. Takes time… trust me, I know how you feel, the past few months, it felt like the muse severed ties with me. I woke up yesterday and felt completely back to normal, I have the keys back to The ImmorTales kingdom. Take it easy… Your muse may wake over night or inspiration might return gradually. Don’t force, only nudge…

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      3. You did predict that you would shed the cocoon of 2020 and transform yourself into a writing juggernaut in 2021. Keep it up. I am easing in. I’ve made steady progress on a continuing project for the last two days.

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      4. The Muse was so convinced you were going to call us a “moth”… I said “butterfly” but you’re not that cliche. Glad you included “writing” before “juggernaut” or it would have been really rude! 😂. Who knows maybe I can share the love and stroke your… muse…

        What project are you working on? Or is it a sweet secret? I’ve not started yet but I am thinking, felt a shift, and started using my calendar to plan again. Like you, I’ll ease into creativity.

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      5. No cliché but a little mixed metaphor. Those muses always need a little stroking, don’t they.

        I’m working on the OB/GYN book, So It Goes. That one chapter that’s beguiled me for far too long. I’m getting almost 300 per day. It’s modest but progress. I typed a little outline that helped. Let’s keep moving forward!

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