Muses: Friend or Foe?

This isn't really a debate thread over whether you love or hate your muse. xD But I know sometimes we all get to a point where we have problems thinking of something to write. And I've got a ton of books on writing. So maybe sometimes I could post some things from those books. Like... in front of me right now is a book called The Writer's Book of Matches: 1,001 Prompts to Ignite Your Fiction by the staff of Fresh Boiled Peanuts, a literary journal.

There are some interesting prompts in this book. Some of them tell you about a situation, some of them are just text, and then there's something called "assignment prompts" that don't pop up often, and I'm pretty sure you guys can figure all this out without me typing up the introduction, so I'll just give you the first two pages of prompts. (They're kind of small pages though.)

• "Well, if you could accuse anybody of being downright evil, it would be him."
  
  
• A flight attendant learns that one of the passengers has brought a weapon on board.
  
  
• A woman buys a gun for home defense, but two days later she can't find it.
  
  
• "He's the cutest little boy. Makes it that much sadder, doesn't it?"
  
  
• During his third night out of town, a traveling businessman discovers a voodoo doll in his hotel room.
  
  
• "I just had the weirdest dream about you."
  
  
• A priest is attacked for being a pedophile. He is innocent of the crime but guilty of something far worse.
  
  
• "Look, somebody has got to make a decision."
  
  
• A married couple sets out on a six-month adventure, living on their boat while sailing from port city to port city.
  
  
• "You know, they invented a word for guys like him."
  
  
• A dentist is stabbed while he waits in line at the movies.
  
  
• "I'm never doing that again."
  
  
• During her first trip to Las Vegas, a woman experiences the luckiest night of her life.