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Hello and welcome to the The Ink Well weekly fiction prompt. The Ink Well is a Hive blockchain-based social media community of creative writers. If you love to write short stories, we invite you to join us. Or peruse the work of our community members.
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Our community rules are designed to make our community a safe, welcoming, plagiarism-free space for self-publishing original short stories.
Authors, please read and comment on other writers' stories. We request that you read at least two stories weekly, or two stories for each one you publish in The Ink Well. It only takes a little time, and this ensures that we have a thriving and supportive community.
Also note that we only select stories for the weekly highlights magazine by authors who are engaging with other members' posts. Thank you to all of the community members who have taken the time to read other authors' work and provide comments.
Okay! Let's review fiction entries from last week and start a new prompt.
Thank you to everyone who posted a story for last week's prompt, “Main Street," which invited The Ink Well authors to write about unusual things that happen in the most ordinary neighborhoods. We really enjoyed all the great entries!
Here are the week's stories. Be sure to read and support these authors for their work! We've noted the prompt stories that were showcased in The Ink Well Highlights Magazine from June 28.
@stormcharmer SHOWCASE STORY
@wrestlingdesires SHOWCASE STORY
@daveyjones7 SHOWCASE STORY
@deeanndmathews SHOWCASE STORY
@aimharryianne
@divplanet
@cryptofi
@dwixer
@ange.nkuru
@young-boss-karin
@mcluz
@gemmy
@kemmyb
@ricardo993
@gracielaacevedo
@katleya
@iyimogaThe prompt for this week is Fireworks.
Fireworks light the night sky at various times around the world — for celebrations, parades, U.S. Independence Day, Chinese New Year, and more. And families often have their own fire crackers, sparklers and displays.
Tell us a story involving fireworks or firecrackers. Perhaps your character is a child who dreams of going to his very first fireworks display, or first gets to see fireworks at Disneyland. Or your character is someone older, remembering the fireworks displays of her youth.
Where will your imagination take you?
Note: As always, please avoid gory, bloody, brutal, sexist or racist themes and language, as well as stories featuring abuse of women, children or animals.
If you don't feel inspired by this prompt or the featured image, feel free to peruse any of our past prompts or our collection of idea-generators:
Reminder: Be sure to also read our community rules. The reason for the repeat reminder is that we see many stories describing brutality of women or that have excessive gore, and we must mute them. Please do not post these stories in The Ink Well. We want our community to be a safe and comfortable place for all readers.
Here are the past prompts if you would like to use them or refer back to them:
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