Muse Food – Life Will Find A Way

By Cynthia Sax on September 28, 2026

If life is at all possible in a place, there will be a creature or plant or microbe or other being living there.

Moss grows on rocks in the middle of the rapids. A house spider lives in an otherwise sterile office. Microbes live their tiny lives on space stations. Heck, there are microbes on our faces right now (in our skin microbiome).

Our characters are never truly alone. And there’s always activity happening around them.

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Muse Food – Mounted Police And Setting The Mood

By Cynthia Sax on February 17, 2025

I was completely enchanted by these mounted police in Qatar.

And…I shouldn’t have been. Because they ARE the police. They have the ability to arrest me and others and perhaps do worse to us.

Those beautiful horses? I suspect they have been trained to kill.

But someone from North America, like myself, associates them with parades and other peaceful events. We don’t view them as possible weapons.

If you want to change the mood of a story, that can be as easy as changing a small detail…like the mode of transportation the rule enforcers use.

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