Weekly short story prompt from The Ink Well

It's strange what a person can think about in the dead of night. I don't know if I ever told you how boring and lonely the life of a guard in the King's palace is? From afar, to the ordinary world I've

I dismounted and walked cautiously, as if entering an enemy camp. However, no one paid too much attention to me, nothing more than any foreigner would attract, regardless of the fact that the weapon was

I had been riding trought the mountain trail for several days now, although it seemed to me that it would soon be the end of my journey, nothing around me gave any indication that there was any settlement

Hello friends, today I am writing you my story, which was originally published in 2018 on this platform. This time I improved a bit, added a few words here and there, and now she is ready to be told again.

We came back tired, with dirty faces, each deep in thought. The look of every soldier after the battle, whether that soldier was a winner or a loser, revealed only one thing, horror. Of course, all that

Hello people of Hive. I know, not my typical post, but it is special day. It is my 4th HIVE birthday. Oh boy it was and still is a journey, this one. When I first came to this awesome network I thought

The morning was gloomy, in fact that weather had never been new to a remote small fishing town far to the north. Since I was a child, most of my days have passed under those gloomy rain and very often,

On that day, the market was the center of the world. Okay, maybe not exactly the center of the world but definitely the center of my world. A world that belonged to a young boy, an apprentice of a local

This day in the lab was strange in many ways. By automatism and habit, I started my daily work when I arrived, preparing reagents for today’s protocol. In no way did the cell cultures seeded in the

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The rain was falling at an incredible rate in those last few days, and it seems to me as if it didn’t even plan to stop until the sky cried out on us last drop of tears. The days did not become so different

We were sitting in a darkened amphitheater facing each other, an elderly professor whose best friend is boredom and young candidate, eager to be in my place in a few decades. Scared, of course, how could

The Ink Well weekly short story writing prompt.

The Ink Well weekly short story writing prompt.

The Ink Well fiction highlights magazine, showcasing some of the best work of our community.

I walked away from the scene of the accident, with a slightly awkward step, as if I were in a semi-drunk state. Of course, I wasn't drunk, I and all the residents of the city of Trimale knew that I didn't

The Ink Well weekly short story writing prompt.

Have you ever been in a life situation that you are not sure you can overcome? You chose your path carefully and in detail, you sacrificed many things that will make you also happy, all for the sake of

Hi everyone, I haven’t been present continuously on Hive for a long time so I can write what I love the most. I'm here now, unfortunately I haven't managed to write much outside of all this in the meantime,