The Ink Well Prompt #18: Change

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Hello and welcome to the The Ink Well weekly fiction prompt. The Ink Well is a Hive blockchain-based social media community of creative writers. If you love to write short stories, we invite you to join us. Or peruse the work of our community members.

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Okay! Let's review fiction entries from last week and start a new prompt.

Stories From the Previous Week

Thank you to everyone who posted a story for last week's prompt, “Action, Dialog and Narrative," which challenged writers to weave together these three elements into a short story. Optionally, writers could also use the image supplied in the prompt.

Thank you to those of you who tackled this. It is always a joy to see the stories that emerge from our writing prompts!

Here are the week's stories. Be sure to read and support these authors for their work! We've noted the stories that were showcased in The Ink Well Highlights Magazine from May 30.

The Great Wide Open, by @cliffagreen SHOWCASE STORY
San Martin's Novel SHOWCASE STORY
She Lost It, by @marlyncabrera
The Siblings, by @ricardo993
Coloured Elephant, by @gracielaacevedo
Winter, by @riottales
From the Fire, by @bruno-kema
Action, Dialog and Narrative, by @iyimoga
Silent Prayers, by @young-boss-karin
Gilbert Dubois Makes His Biggest Journey, by @deeanndmathews
Kumadra, by @dwixer
Accept or Die, by @ubani1
Off Road, by @jayna

This Week’s Prompt

The prompt for this week is Change.

For this prompt, think of the word "change" and let your imagination take you wherever it wants to go. The word has many possible interpretations. For example, it could be something enormous happening, like a dictator taking over as the head of state in a country. Or it could be a child moving away from his best friend. It could be good change, like a woman selecting a whole new wardrobe to remake herself after a divorce. Or it could be coins in the crumpled hat of a beggar. Where will your imagination take you?

Note: As always, please avoid gory, bloody, brutal, sexist or racist themes and language.

If you don't feel inspired by this prompt or the featured image, feel free to peruse any of our past prompts or our collection of idea-generators:

Weekly Prompt Rules:

Deadline: You have a week to write for the prompt, until the next one is posted. (Note: You can write for any of the prompts anytime. This is just a guideline to be included in the weekly round-up of highlights.)
Hashtags: Please use these hashtags: #fiction #writing #inkwellprompt #theinkwell.
Story link: Post a link to your story in a comment on this post.
Community support: Visit the work of at least two other community members and comment on their work.
Title: The title is up to you. You can come up with any title you wish. You do not need to name it after the prompt or include the prompt word.
Images: Please only use images from license free and creative commons sites, like Pixabay, Unsplash and Pexels. Images you find on the Internet are copyright protected and cannot be used. Be sure to provide the source link.

Reminder: Be sure to also read our community rules. The reason for the repeat reminder is that we see many stories describing brutality of women or that have excessive gore, and we must mute them. Please do not post these stories in The Ink Well. We want our community to be a safe and comfortable place for all readers.

Here are the past prompts if you would like to use them or refer back to them:

We look forward to reading your stories!

@jayna, @agmoore and @gracielaacevedo

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