The Ink Well Prompt #49: See this post for prompt and rules

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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.

Note: We always launch our prompt posts with important information. So be sure to check it out first! Then we invite you to read on and see what we have in store for this week's prompt.

The January Collaboration with DreemPort Continues!

In case you hadn't heard, DreemPort selected The Ink Well for a community spotlight for the month of January. This is week 3! For details, be sure to see our newsletter and the DreemPort Challenge Announcement.

If you choose to participate, you can publish your story for this week's prompt in The Ink Well as usual, then post it on DreemPort and curate others to earn DreemPort tokens. The day to post your story on DreemPort is Thursday.

Congratulations to last week's DreemPort winners, announced here:

Important FAQs about The Ink Well!

Here are answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about The Ink Well.

What Is The Ink Well All About?

The Ink Well is a short story community. This means we only accept short fiction. (Fiction means stories that came from your imagination, not from real life.)

It also means:

No novels, chapter stories or multi-part stories
No poems
No introduction posts
No essays or other non-fiction
No memes

Just fictional short stories!

The Ink Well is all about creativity, quality, community, and engagement. As such, we ask the following:

Please take the time to get to know the community and read other writers' work. Everyone who posts in The Ink Well is expected to read and comment on at least two other stories for each piece you post.
See our catalog of fiction writing tips and make use of our resources. (Many of our writers are developing awesome skills, and you can too!)
Put effort into your posts. Review and edit your content for errors before publishing.

What are the community rules?

You can find our community rules at the top of The Ink Well community (right side of the page).

Please read the rules before posting in The Ink Well, as we outline the "do's and don'ts." If you can't find them, you can read them here.

Our community rules are designed to make our community a safe, welcoming, plagiarism-free space for self-publishing original short stories.

What does it take to get rewards in The Ink Well??

We refer you to the above description of what The Ink Well is about. If you are not getting great rewards, it is likely for one of the following reasons:

Your story has many grammatical errors. (This is easily fixed with the tips in our post, Help for the Grammatically Challenged.)
Your story lacks some important elements of good fiction, such as character development, dialog, scene details or a story arc. (See our catalog of fiction writing tips for information on these important aspects of short stories.)
Your story appears to be a retelling of an old folk tale. There's nothing wrong with folk tales, but here in The Ink Well, we are looking for 100% original fiction. We want to see fresh new stories from your imagination, not age-old stories with well-worn themes, or worse — plagiarism (which will get you banned from the community).

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

Stories From the Previous Week

Thank you to everyone who posted a story for last week's prompt, “Inheritance."

We really enjoyed reading stories about inheritance, and the many things people do — some wonderfun and some devious — when it comes to handling money and property. Thank you, everyone!

Here are the week's stories. Be sure to read and support these authors for their work.

A Better Match, by @kemmyb
The Unremembered Gate, by @litguru
Ingredients, Infusions, and Intuitions, by @dreemsteem
Inherited, by @cliffagreen
The Locket, by @khaleesii
An Unexpected Inheritance, by @merit.ahama
Carlson's New Mansion, by @yuki-nee
The Seer!, by @kei2
Her Inheritance, by @davidbright
Too Late to Change, by @blueeyes8960
My Short Lived Inheritance, by @mandate
The Cloudy Island, by @ubani1
Celebrating Life, by @marcybetancourt
Inheriting Old Man Maverick, by @harlowjourney
Cracked, by @samsmith1971
The Unwanted Inheritance, by @b0s
The Mc Millers, by @joalheal
The Guardian of the Cursed Sword, by @mosin-nagant
The Will, by @milezofplay
Champion, Canine Merit Medal, by @katleya
The Wicked Stepmother, by @abdul-qudus
A Blessing in Disguise, by @iyimoga
Maldak's Curse of the Inheritance, by @zeraton
A Father Who Was No Father, by @iskafan
Eyes and Hands, by @gracielaacevedo
The Prodigals, by @joseph23
Ricky Was Thankful to Her Mother, by @rayt2
Skunks and Arizonas, by @doziekash
The Politics, by @raymondpeter
My Share of the Inheritance, by @adoore-eu
A Duel with the Devil, by @piratethanos
You Reap What You Sow, by @farahikram
Jaguna's House of Commotion, by @mrenglish
Evening Star, by @ghost.queen
A Share of My Inheritance, by @chincoculbert
Epiphany, by @itsostylish
Twisted Fate - Inheritance, by @princessbusayo
Unity and Honesty, by @cool08
Behind Closed Doors, by @emeka002
A Story About Life, by @smilejerry
The Lost Inheritance, by @kingkenny44
The Inherited Curse, by @ji33y
Fake Documents and Punishment for Forgery, by @fantom22
Brigham Monkey and the Golden Key, by @liftslikealady
The White Sheep Is the Real Black Sheep, by @theimpostor
A Star Is Reborn, by @khoola
Inherited, by @ayesha-malik
Family Ties, by @abmakko
Jean-Paul Philippe Dubois Inherits Everything, by @deeanndmathews
I Wish the Owner Is Here, by @popmanj
The Unexpected, by @chidubem26
Donald's Inheritance, by @dwixer
The Unmerited Inheritance, by @carlynn
The Inheritance, by @littlepiggies
Family Affliction, by @cescajove
The Will of Inheritance, by @mcluz
Bamboo Stick Inheritance, by @rokhani
Inheritance, by @stellageorge
Blood Sand, by @ricardo993
Lloyd's Dynasty, by @mmykel

Well done, everyone!

This Week’s Prompt

At last, the prompt of the week!

This week's prompt is: By the light of the moon.

What happens by moonlight? We hope your story will tell us!

Moonlight can be secretive, romantic, or inspiring. It can make a child dream of a trip to outer space, give someone the perfect opportunity to propose marriage, or provide just enough light for a burglar to sneak around a building.

... or any another possibility that comes to mind.

We hope that will get your imaginations started! We look forward to reading your stories. Remember to participate in the DreemPort challenge, if you are so inclined!

Note: As always, please avoid gory, bloody, brutal, sexist or racist themes and language, erotica and other NSFW (not safe for work) content, and stories featuring abuse of women, children or animals.

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 in the next prompt post.)
Story link: Post your story in The Ink Well community, and post a link to your story in a comment on this post.
Hashtags: Please use these hashtags: #fiction #writing #inkwellprompt #theinkwell and #dreemport, if you are also posting your story to the DreemPort site.
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.
Length: We request that story word counts are a maximum of 1,500 words maximum length (preferably 750-1000 words). This is just a guideline. Longer stories tend to get fewer readers. Additionally, The Ink Well admins appreciate keeping to that maximum story length for our time management!

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, children, or animals, or that have excessive gore or violence, 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:

#1: Heart and Soul
#2: The moment when...
#3: Beauty with a twist
#4: The Way Home
#5: A Matter of Time
#6 50 Story Ideas
#7 The Library
#8 All the way to tomorrow
#9 Legend
#10 Three Words
#11 World Building
#12 Childhood Summers
#13 50 Imagination Ticklers
#14 Railroad
#15 Cats - 750 words
#16 Your Birthday
#17 Action, Dialog and Narrative
#18 Change
#19 Tea Time or Tee Time?
#20 Summer Camp
#21 Main Street
#22 Fireworks
#23 Picnic
#24 Run
#25 A word of advice
#26 Winding road
#27 Mirror
#28 Shipwreck
#29 School Notes
#30 Three Words: Scooter, River, Midnight
#31 Flash Fiction Contest
#32 A Fork in the Road
#33 Shadows
#34 Three Words: Island, Witch, Cake
#35 Full Moon
#36 Graveyard
#37 Jack-o-Lantern
#38 Family Ties
#39 Longing
#40 Feast
#41 Gift
#42 Season of Light
#43 Believe
#44 Elf
#45 Holiday
#46 New Year
#47 Unlikely Hero
#48 Inheritance

Thank you for being a part of The Ink Well!

@jayna, @agmoore, @gracielaacevedo and @wrestlingdesires

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