Adventure Of A Lifetime

#36 by Coldplay

What a great week of stories! Life During Wartime, by Talking Heads was such a good prompt. I’ve really enjoyed reading primalbeet Gray Bill Ferguson 🇨🇦 Good Boy Records Theresa Greene Diane submissions!

Writers if you’re looking for a little inspiration, I invite you to join our little writing group. All prose of 1500 words or less inspired by this week’s prompt is welcome.

Musicians, I’d love to see what you can do with with this week’s prompt too! Be it a cover or something original. How about a piano or acoustic rendition? Tell me a story through a song!

Week #36 Feature🏆

This week’s Feature goes to Diane, for her short story titled, Life During Wartime. In it she shows us the true cost, of the many wars fought behind closed doors in households all over the world every single day.

I am a firm believer that fiction can bring about change, and this is a great example.

Marley pulled herself and Squeaky Ted further under her bed, curling round the detritus of bed-fluff, as words like gunfire rose from the kitchen, the loaded weapons of years of marriage that her parents hurled back and forth with accuracy at each other. She knew the heavier ones were her dad’s but her mum, after so much practice, knew how to hit those places nobody else knew of. Between them they left a graveyard on the highway of Marley’s heart that neither would ever know about.

Life During Wartime by Talking Heads

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Here’s this week’s prompt, Adventure Of A Lifetime, by Coldplay!

"Adventure of a Lifetime" is a song by British rock band Coldplay. It was released on 6 November 2015 as the lead single from their seventh studio album, A Head Full of Dreams (2015). (Via Wikipedia)

The track reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart and number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached the top 20 in a number of countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Switzerland.

The official music video was directed by the band's long-time collaborator, Mat Whitecross. It was released on 29 November 2015. The concept for the video was hatched after Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and British motion capture expert/actor Andy Serkis met on a plane and discussed ideas. It took about six months to make the music video, which as of March 2025 has received over 1.6 billion views on YouTube.

The CGI animated video features a group of chimpanzees that come across a Beats Pill speaker under a pile of leaves. The primates then discover the power of music and form a band that resembles the members of Coldplay.

According to The Guardian, the video was shot at The Imaginarium, where the reboot series of Planet of the Apes and parts of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Star Wars: The Force Awakens were filmed. English choreographer Holly Blakey was responsible for creating the band's dance moves.

Calling all Poets, Fiction, or Non-Fiction writers that love music — Share your prose of 1500 words or less, using the prompt, Adventure Of A Lifetime.

Remember:

• Each Tuesday I’ll publish a newsletter with that week’s song prompt — along with a featured writer’s submission from the previous week.

• Anyone is then free to run with it! Just add the link to your story or prose in the comments of this newsletter.

• Subscribers to Stories from the Jukebox, also have a chance to be featured in the following week’s newsletter. And I’ll do my best to give feedback and restack each submission.

There’s always rules:

1. All forms of prose are welcome, just keep it under 1500 words.

2. Submissions must be published by midnight on Monday.

3. Submissions must include a tag/link to this week’s Song Prompt Newsletter embedded within the post.

   While anyone is welcome to add their post in the comments at any time — all rules must be followed for a post to be eligible to be featured or shared.

How would you like to pick our prompt? Find out how to join our revolving list of Headliners here.

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Our prompt this week was chosen by Annette Sharp. Annette’s talent amazes me! From her poems and letters, to fiction and non-fiction writing, I am often spell bound by her prose. Oh and videos too! I really enjoy watching her paint, talking about relaxing.

Annette’s light shines bright. And she shares her life and writing journey through these three publications.

• A Woman Rising

• Ironwood Lounge

• The Phantasmagoria

Writing and speaking opinion, fiction, and creating art. Portals of a mission for love, courage, support and unity in supporting woman. -Annette Sharp

Here’s Annette’s Headliner, Adventurous!

Start small, one step at a time, and perhaps being adventurous is found as a growth process. Not all of us can start at 10 and jump to 60 in an instant. Some will. Adventuring through smaller moments can wake something inside of us. We feel something coming back to life in one small change, one choice we did not make yesterday or 500 days before that.

Adventurous

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