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Image generated with Leonardo.ai Welcome to the Hive Creatives Magazine! What's it all about? The Ink Well curators are branching out! For years we have been curating the fiction and creative nonfiction

Weekly short story prompt from The Ink Well

The first time I met Uncle Femi, he came as a savior. Even though I didn't want to accept his kind gesture at first, and that is due to how insecure the country is. One needs to be very, very careful.

Growing up in the northern part of my country, where the harmattan breeze from the Sahara Desert is experienced more and more harshly, we were made to believe that it is one of the leading causes of fire

source “Wake up, sleeping head,” I heard from Dreamland, like a sound coming from the gong. I grinned as I shook my head and hissed, looking at the person who woke me up from this beautiful sleep. “ It

‎Laila—that is what the villagers called her. Her full name was Laila Jamilah, though she was more familiarly known simply as Laila. She possessed a stunningly beautiful face; her cheeks held a natural

Paula keeps a garden. It's not a garden in the normal sense, with a few flower beds and a lawn. This one takes up half of a large space. The envy of the neighborhood, she's quite certain. Dahlias and roses

The last normal day began with rain. It was the kind of quiet morning nobody remembers until years later, when every ordinary detail suddenly becomes important. Amaka made breakfast for her husband, Daniel,

How a monster named honor claims innocent lives and why society must finally break its deadly silence.

It was the usual routine every day. They would exchange glances on the train, through the city and in the elevator to their different offices, where they would click away at their desks before repeating

Image created in Artguru The words flowed like water from a hose sometimes, but most of the time there were no words at all, leaving the document page blank for hours. Writer’s block was like an illness

Hello and welcome to my blog. I am Patricia Samuel, and it is my pleasure to share my first post in this community. This actually comes at the right time because I just finished telling my students these

At exactly 7:03 a.m., Nigerians woke up rich, sounds crazy right? but yep, one of the poorest countries in the world and had the most corrupt politicians whom hoarded huge wads of cash, suddenly everyone

Image generated with Ai Are you sure we are actually leaving? I looked at Mfon and laughed while listening to her “You have asked me this question since morning.” I replied “I know,” she said, looking

Life, they say, is unpredictable. Things can change so quickly, either for good or for bad. So many things happen without warning, and one can never be completely certain about what the next moment holds.

‎Samuel spent three years at home after graduating from secondary school. And he thought that time wasted was a decrease in his life, not knowing that it was his biggest achievement. ‎ ‎Image source ‎When

The Invisible Line: When "Normal" Becomes a Luxury Every lifetime is quietly divided into two eras: the vast, comfortable "before" and the sharp, unpredictable "after." For

None of us knew we were watching my father live out his last ordinary week. It looked too much like every other week to raise any alarm. My father was an electrician. Not the kind with a big shop or a

My elder sister used to be my worst enemy. Growing up we were more than just enemies; she was a cat and I a rat. We don't go in a sane way at all. We are never in agreement, and we argue about the smallest

She lives with her parents in the city of Puerto Cabello, Rosario has been very outgoing since childhood; she attended elementary and middle school with many neighbors from her community, but her best