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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 2 months ago

  The Interview

  I realized I was in trouble when he started talking about the blue house on Melrose Street. Not that he did say it in quite those words, not at first. We'd been going for around forty minutes, recorder

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 2 months ago

  A Dance With My Final Paper

  I know it's felt like forever since I've been away (haha), but life has put me on a full-blown marathon the past few weeks. Final exams, final projects, final everything. The final stretch of my final

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 4 months ago

  Don't Sweat It

  (Image was generated with Google ImageFX) The IV bag was empty and Kamila couldn't get her hands to stop shaking long enough to hang a new one. "Code blue, room 314. Code…

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 4 months ago

  The Parking Ticket

  Two hundred dollars. Erin stared at the gleaming orange slip taped to her windshield wiper as though it would somehow transform if she glared hard enough. But no, still two…

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 4 months ago

  Living The Dream

  (Image was generated by Google ImageFX) I was obsessed. God, I used to be so obsessed with scholarships it wasn't even funny anymore. My friends had stopped listening to me…

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 4 months ago

  In the Time Before

  "Miss Carter, when is Mrs. Reyes back?" I freeze mid-sentence as I scribble fractions on the board. Third time today someone has inquired about that. Third time I've had to…

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• lailawrites (56)in The Chess Community • 4 months ago

  It's safe to say I'm obsessed with chess :- Game Review

  Let me start by saying: blessed be he who made chess. I obsess over this game for so many reasons. With chess, you learn most lessons about life: patience being the most…

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 5 months ago

  A Friend's Shadow

  Flashback: I was buying a new notebook from the bookstore. I didn't really require one, mine was barely half-full, but Mansoor used this particular brand. Blue cover with thin…

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• lailawrites (56)in The Chess Community • 5 months ago

  I took one hell of a risk, and frankly, I feel super proud!

  There's my checkmate, and you can see my original queen is actually outside. That one there is a promoted pawn. Let me walk you through where it all started. I won’t bore…

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 5 months ago

  The Empathy Engine

  The notification popped onto Elijah's laptop screen "You seem stressed. Remember, tomorrow is another day! 🌟" He gazed at it for a good minute before he realized his own system…

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 5 months ago

  My Hand On Another Human?

  I can still hear the sound my hand made on Chigozie's face, my brain might have doctored it and included some interesting effects. It was just crisp and sharp. Like a textbook closing. But I'm getting

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• lailawrites (56)in Scholar and Scribe • 5 months ago

  The House That Caught Rain

  The House That Caught Rain The rain did not fall anywhere else except 12 Ashwood Crescent, and Detective Evelyn Shaw was becoming drenched waiting in Mrs. Jules' immaculately dry driveway adjacent. "How

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 5 months ago

  Where Did You Go?

  Coffee's gone cold again. I keep forgetting to drink it, just sit here looking at your contact name on my phone. Sasha. God, typing it out even makes my chest hurt. It's been four months since you last

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 5 months ago

  A Tale of Old Notebooks - CNF #144

  My Old Notebooks That certain smell of old paper mixed with blue ink that has been sitting in a cardboard box for months. I am kneeling on the floor of my shared apartment, surrounded by textbooks that

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• lailawrites (56)in SciFi Multiverse • 5 months ago

  The Reality of Pollution: A Nigerian Perspective

  (Image generated by Google Image fx) Having come from Nigeria, pollution is not merely some hypothetical concept you read about in books but the harsh reality right before your eyes every time you step

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• lailawrites (56)in The Anime Realm • 5 months ago

  [ENG-ESP] TOKYO GHOUL: ANIME REVIEW // Reseña del anime TOKYO GHOUL

  Tokyo Ghoul is an anime adaptation by Studio Pierrot, directed by Shuhei Morita for season one. The show has four seasons with Season 1 airing from July to September 2014, Season…

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 5 months ago

  Passenger

  That voice in my head was talking again. (Image was generated with ImageFX) I put my hands over my temples, perched on the side of my hospital bed. Six weeks now since the…

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• lailawrites (56)in Hive Book Club • 5 months ago

  Book Review: Edith Allonby's "Marigold"

  Good day Book Club Hivers, I hope you all are doing fine? This is my review on the book 'Marigold' by Edith Allonby, also the author of 'Jewel Sowers' Image source In a…

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• lailawrites (56)in Scholar and Scribe • 5 months ago

  The King of Diamonds

  An entry to the literary games contest, organized by @allentaylor. more here I picked the following cards, using an online card shuffler; -King of Diamonds: He builds his…

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• lailawrites (56)in The Ink Well • 5 months ago

  All That Glitters Is Not Gold - CNF #143

  The notification sound: "Exclusive Proofreading Opportunity: William Books Publishing." I remember thinking that the name sounded professional. William. Like William Morrow or…

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