Monday Muse: The Mystery Crate
Monday, April 6th, 2009
I went out riding on my ATV today, the first ride of the summer, and came across a box laying along the side of the road. It was an old crate, roughly 12″ by 12″ by about 4′ long, that had fallen out of someone’s truck over the winter and tumbled down into the ditch between the road and the ATV trail.
The first time I passed it I was hit with all kinds of musings about “What if I had stopped and looked inside?” The next time I stopped, looked inside and found… today’s Monday Muse.
What if your character were out on a trail and found a crate along side the road? Would they stop and open it? What would be inside of it? What adventures might the contents of that crate lead them to?
So, what was really in that crate I discovered? Not much. Not the rifles or dynamite my muses conjured for an adventure. No, there was a pile of snow where the box had landed upside down on the snowbank and a half of a cinder block.
