Weekly short story prompt from The Ink Well

The smell of carbolic acid always takes me back to a hospital waiting room. I no longer remember which doctor my grandmother was supposed to see that day, nor do I recall most of what my aunt said.

Greetings! Keeping quiet in the face of provocation has never been my thing and this is because I used to get irritated with what people do at times. I can say that I'm a disciplined person who would not

I didn't notice I was becoming distant, until Amara pointed in out. We were sitting together one evening, both of us with our phones in our hands. She was scrolling through hers, while I was doing the

Sometimes, everything seems to be okay. Life feels peaceful, ordinary, and predictable. Then, without warning, life changes, and some of the joys that were once shared among people slowly fade away. I

I grew up in a home where birthdays were rarely acknowledged. It was a culture passed down from my parents to my siblings and I, and we subconsciously threaded the same path. I often found myself conveniently

Greetings! Shade who happened to be the elder sister to Gbenga my classmate was so beautiful but one thing that I detest about her was her pride, although, I was not that close with her but all what I

Now, twenty-five years have passed. Sometimes, someone suddenly pops into my mind for no apparent reason. I try to contact or visit them right away if I can. It isn’t because I believe in premonitions.

Hello everyone you're welcome to my blog today ❤️ So many times in life we do not know what people are going through and most times we just sit in our comfort zone and judge them or just assume whatever

I have a lot of people in my life, but I can only call a few of them “my friends,” because it takes a lot of labor to decipher the kind of person I am. To cut a long story short, It's very difficult for

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

There are certain things in life that you assume everybody just knows, Not because somebody sat them down and taught it to them but because it is the kind of knowledge that lives in common sense, you do

There are some discoveries that don't come with noise. They don't announce themselves with shouting or tears. They quietly change the way you see someone forever. Mine happened on a cool Saturday morning

Weekly short story prompt from The Ink Well

One way to know if an apology is deep or not is the actions that follow the apology; the fact that one apologised means they are remorseful of their actions and have come to the realisation that they were

Hello everyone you're welcome to my block today. Apologies when you hear apologies what comes to mind most time we just see apologies as saying I'm sorry or being remorseful for us something bad that we

When I spoke the words out, it felt rehearsed, not like an apology, but words that have often been spoken and had now cleaved to my tongue. I knew I was wrong, but I was not guilty, at least I did not

source Back then, student protests took place almost every day. The students would head out with their supply of rocks to confront the police at the university entrances. They felt safe inside the campus

The analog watch on my left wrist read 9:45 a.m. My cell phone in my pants pocket vibrated. I paused the presentation I was giving to the training participants. As I switched to the next slide, I checked

‎Fundamentally, every human being experiences fatigue, boredom, and frustration. Repetitive routines often unconsciously breed a sense of weariness and annoyance. Sometimes these feelings are expressed