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This was a nice take on the prompt. Please note though that we require our writers to ensure that they proofread and edit their submissions to identify spelling mistakes and issues with basic grammar and punctuation. We recommend the use of Grammarly for this purpose but caution against using it for any of its advanced AI features which is strictly disallowed.
Before we can curate this story, kindly ensure that you provide image sourcing for all images used in your submission. Images should either be your own (and then you should state this at the foot of your post), or be royalty-free and from royalty-free websites (in which case you should provide the URL link to the image on the website so that we can confirm that it is royalty-free). We also suggest that you write an Intro post for Hive so that we can learn more about you :-) We recommend that you use the tag #introduceyourself so that others may also find you and get to know you better.
Now that you're here, please have a look around and get to know our community. Here are a few tips for getting acquainted:
Be sure to read The Ink Well community rules at the top of the community home page, and check out our FAQ about The Ink Well.
We accept two kinds of short stories in The Ink Well: fictional stories and creative nonfiction stories. We are all about quality, and we expect writers to carefully review their work before posting. Not doing so will result in low curation rewards or posts being ignored. You can see our article on checking your posts for grammar here.
You can find some great articles on story writing in our catalog of storytelling tips.
You can find information about what we are looking for in creative nonfiction stories in this post.
And please be sure to engage in the community by reading and commenting on the work of other community members. We ask everyone who posts in The Ink Well to read and comment on at least two other stories for each one published.
Again, welcome!