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Weekly short story prompt from The Ink Well

In March 2020, the world shut down. The federal government ordered all universities shut down. The federal government ordered all universities to close, and the Town Campus of the University of Uyo emptied

After quitting my teaching job, I needed another job to help me stay busy as well as keep the income coming in. I searched for corporate jobs until I got tired of searching and decided to start looking

Life on campus was splendid until reality made me realize that things weren’t that simple. Like every other student I was preparing for exams, when a course mate asked for my help. When he told me he needed

![1001050859.jpg]( Unsplash The nights got closer and the mornings faster; I always felt I didn't get enough sleep no matter how early I went to bed the previous night. I blamed it on the exhaustion from

"Sir, it was your younger brother who collected it. He said you told her to come for it." The young lady who was behind the wooden counter held up the small white envelope, and I looked at it

pexels As a twin, while growing up, I thought my twin sister and I were sworn enemies from a past life. We always had disagreements, argued over things that were unnecessary, and even insulted one another

My Dad Back in the days, teachers were underpaid. On the streets, we could see the labels of certain houses. Not for teachers. The mockery was everywhere. Teachers' clothes were either outdated or too

What 20 Years of witnessing a stage 4 cancer survivor has taught us about life and friendship There are moments in life when your entire perspective on suffering, resilience, and wealth gets completely

To this day, I still wish I had video-recorded the scene to serve as evidence before attending to the clothes, but the deed had been done, and the only witness I had could not prove my innocence. In the

Greetings! Soji was one of my students when I first got employment into the state teaching commission, back then, I was just a newly employed teacher with little experience, although, I studied education

I was only two years old when my mother died. I was too young to understand what death meant. I did not know what i had lost then, and i did not have memories of my mother that i could hold on to. I simply

AI One of the most difficult tasks is house chores, especially washing dishes and clothes, and cleaning the toilet too. I would pile up clothes like heaps until I had almost emptied my wardrobe before

Weekly short story prompt from The Ink Well

Murphy's dad works with the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA); like the name implies, they are the ones in charge of keeping the entire state clean. Every morning, even before the neighborhood

"Can you sit here so you can tell me if there is enough breeze blowing?" This was how my assignment started. On a weekend, I want to go to a building site with a wooden chair under the only mango

Hello everyone your welcome to my blog today ♥️ My best friend and confidential friend Benita has been good to me as I always visit her whenever I have my plans to be executed, I will always go to her

That's a real man - real bravery of rare breed Every single day, we rely on a massive, invisible web of infrastructure just to power our modern lives, completely oblivious to the human grit required to

Let's keep a good heart and mind. Teaching is not easy at all. You need to keep correcting over and over again until perfection is attained. I can't even fathom what a bad teacher can do to a kid. However,

“A rolling stone gathers no moss” is one phrase I have heard quite a lot of times growing up, but I never really read meaning into it until things started playing out in my life, going from one stage to