#theinkwellprompt

It was a Saturday morning. Gabriel awoke but did not even try to get up from his bed. With his hands, he dragged the blanket over his head and entered wonderland. He began to wonder how his day would be.

By seven o’clock that morning, the town of Abeni was already awake... The smell of akara floated through the narrow streets while Buses groaned as they struggled to start... Children in blue uniforms hurried

The morning began like any other.... At exactly 6:45 a.m., Daniel’s alarm rang from beneath his pillow. He slapped the phone twice before finally finding it. The room was still dark and the fan above him

Stephen was invited by Cowbell Paedia to represent his school, Bright Future Private School. He soon became the face of the school when he won the competition. His mathematics teacher, Mr. Kolawole, was

Broad daylight opened to the receiving room. Longing for his queen, who was away overseas, the king waited. Scarcely had he opened the louvres when a letter came in. "My lord! Here is the masterpiece

Everyone thought Amara and Daniel had the perfect marriage, they had been married for six years and whenever they walked into a room together, people noticed.. Daniel would hold the door open for her...

"Bisola! Bisola!" She won't answer until I call her for the third time. Mama Bisola said. "Bisola!!!!" I screamed again and again. "Maaaaa!" Bisola shouted as if she was awakened

It was exactly 5:40 in the morning when Emeka heard the truck horn outside his window.... fìrst One long sound.. Then two short ones. He knew that sound. It was Mr. Monday... Nobody knew why people called

The old truck arrived just before sunset.. It moved slowly through the dusty road, coughing smoke into the evening air, while children ran behind it shouting and laughing... Everyone in Umuahia knew the

Oh! Caleb. I have just thought about the use of prepositions in writing. We are accustomed to conform to, indifferent to, and many more. Why are you still making these mistakes in the previous assignment

The Academic Staff Union has just declared an indefinite strike action. This was due to the fact that the workers were underpaid and the level of hardship was increasing. They said there was no going back.

Emeka had one plan for that Saturday morning and it was very simple,it was to get out of the house before his mother would wake up and remembered the list of chores that she had mentioned the night before,

When Ada finally left Emeka, she thought the hardest part of her life was over because She had spent almost four years trying to make that relationship work.... four years of arguments that started over

Everyone in Umudara village knew who Chief Okeke was but very few people actually knew him.. to most people, he was simply the old man behind the wall. His compound sat at the edge of the village, surrounded

Government workers in Nigerian institutions have not been paid really well; chaos everywhere. The ASUU chairman decried that there is no going back on the strike action. Students ran helter-skelter, looking

The first time old Mama Nkem sold the black goat, the village laughed. The second time she sold it, people began to whisper... By the third time they called her a thief.. "How can one woman keep selling

Fourteen-year-old Samuel arrived late to school every morning... Not five minutes late. Not ten. Sometimes thirty. Sometimes an hour. His teacher, Mrs. Deborah Okonkwo eventually run out of patience..

A single post changed Deborah's life. Initially it was a good idea. She was an accountant for a logistics company that was expanding in Lagos. The company was known for being honest; Deborah was proud

It's now the year 2047 and the society had finally solved a problem that had troubled humanity for centuries..... Fake apologies. Generation after Generation people had lied through clenched teeth and

At such a pace, I didn't believe that I was doomed to fail. My close friends advised me to make a U-turn in my career. Yes, Bola, my own husband, whose words of advice once looked like callous reprimands