Weekly short story prompt from The Ink Well

Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community ! I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from

Bad Day For Extortionist Jay

She sits on the bathtub edge, feet perched precariously on a time-slip soap-bubble. Comforting, the light-shallow breeze wafts in through the open door. Every ounce of her, inviting sin in. The promiscuity

A short semi-autobiographic story about freedom, love, and the realization that there are no side characters in life.

“So, Rob, tell me how exactly you are sitting still – you never sit still, man!”

Summer of the Great Petunia Poisoning and Other Dilemmas - Part 4

source My grandmother waited for us at the entrance to her house as we got out of the car that had brought us to that secluded spot nestled among the mountains—which would be our home from now on. A large,

Adunni yelped, palm resting on her chest where pearl necklace had been only a moment ago. The necklace her father gifted her on the day she was born. In all her eighteen years, she only took it off for

I thought the wall between us and Mr. Tunde was just a wall; I never knew there was more to it. Back then, when I was still a child, growing up, my mom would tell me to not play near it or even think of

The siege of the Lee house by Lil' Robert Ludlow could only mean one thing.

English The Walls Are Crumbling “Tom, don't forget to heat lunch.” Rudolf knocked on the bedroom door. When he got no answer, he decided to go into his son’s room. The place was a bit of a mess, cluttered

Imagine: 35,000,000 people living in New York City. Imagine: water is so scarce in the city that it is rationed, and needs to be collected and carried home in containers. Imagine a home that may be one

Chima sat at the edge of the park bench that was situated opposite the large pond at his favourite amusement park, with his legs crossed over the other. He had the countenance of a confused bachelor struggling

Всі ми в Україні добре знаємо, що прилаштувати врятованих бездомних собачок дуже важко. Прогрес останніми роками з'явився, бо люди побачили гарне відношення до таких песиків у Європі та інших розвинених

Learning To Mask Pain At An Early Age - ZAPFIC50 Based on

“So, um, a pig auction? Listen, we stopped doing people like that and it is time to free the pigs, too!”

"You people and your steel and glass," Baba Joy said while she was using her legs to match the palm slowly inside a section of mud wall that has been built since before any of us were given birth

Hello friends, good vibes to all. Hola amigos, buenas vibras para todos. Source! You'd think that if you're watching a movie starring a Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee, you'd expect it to be high

Understanding that she'd never see a total alignment of all eight planets in our solar system during her lifetime, Epiphany vowed that she would witness the next multi-planet alignment that occurred. So