Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a surveillance camera takes Tina to rebels living in a dystopian autocracy and Jen to a down-on-her-luck security guard.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a woman on a train takes them to two thrillers: one with a Japanese woman pulled into a geopolitical plot, the other an American tourist whose traveling companion has disappeared.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a man on the street takes Tina to a Christmas caper staring Nick Kringle and Jen to a man attempting to untangle a long-ago art theft.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a woman with a bag take them to a woman whose secret life makes her the prime suspect in a murder and a story about a bored bakery owner who finds a bag full of cash.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of sailboat inspires a Russian thriller and comedy-of-errors caper.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of suspension bridge in the wildnerness took them both to trouble on an eco-adventure tour. Tina envisioned a thriller, Jen came up with a YA story.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of an Italian street takes Jen to time-traveling historians and Tina to a plot to get even with a three-timing Lothario.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of two race cars takes Tina to a village with hidden rivalries, jealousies, and even romance and Jen to a new chapter in the world of The Wind In the Willows where Mr. Toad plays detective.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of an island in Greece takes them both to Agatha Christie-inspired stories: Tina has a locked-room mystery on a luxurious cruise ship, Jen brings back Miss Daisy Dupree at a house party.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a woman walking at night take them to a former revolutionary on the run and an underdog sibling helping clear her sister’s name.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a person in the snow takes Jen to the nefarious doings in a faraway city where it’s winter ten months a year and Tina to a nanny who reinvents herself by preying on the socialites she once catered to.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a girl fishing took both Jen and Tina to middle grade mysteries. Tina’s is the fifth installment of a possible 75th Street Girl’s Detective Agency, Jen’s is a group of cousins searching for clues to a lost archaeological site.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a man in the desert took Jen to a murder in a galactic space colony and Tina to a businessman who finds a severed hand in the desert.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a woman on a bicycle took them to a widow who discovers her double lying in a hospital bed and a spinster bent on outwitting the world’s greatest detective.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a broken window took us to surprisingly upbeat places.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. This month’s photo of a lonely man at a window took us in unexpected directions.

Jen and Tina love writing prompts. Sometimes they turn into stories, sometimes they just get our creative juices flowing. Either way, they’re a lot of fun. This time Tina’s photo of misty trees took us to two very different stories.