Rananda | The Ink Rat 🚢

💚💚💚 Jade started out pretty green about storytelling. However, after receiving sage advice to try the #30words30day challenge, she now pines for the daily prompt and (o)lives to tell viridescent tales. 💚💚💚 #30words30days #green

@poorab_pattnaik 👏👏👏

He burned the letter, watching the flames consume every desperate word. He moved to leave, but somehow, his boots were bolted. Words are stubborn; they don't always let go easily. #30words365 #somehow

@MrBrokenEyes ❤️❤️❤️

It wasn’t meant to be possible. He had made sure it could never happen again. But somehow, he found himself opening his heart again. This woman was healing the wound. #30Words365 #Somehow #MicroLit #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #ImWriting

Bertie wants Astoria to experience an unforgettable out-of-this-world date. Mission achieved. And next time, he definitely won’t mix up the spaceship’s drinking water plumbing with the onboard sewerage recycling system. #30Words365 #Mix #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

@MrBrokenEyes 😂Inspiration comes from the strangest of places!

@rat_ink Well that’s only taken me 26 bloody years. 🤣

Ronnie smiled at the line of new crewmen. “Like our ships name, you will be upholding a Legacy. One of service and pride. Work hard,work smart, work as one.” #30Words365 #Legacy #MicroLit #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #ImWriting

@MrBrokenEyes Love it!

A socialite in the Village, a Butcher in Brooklyn and a housewife in Queens. All killed in the same way with the same weapon. No link between them… except me. #30Words365 #Link #MicroLit #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #ImWriting

@LindaMDuffy 😂

@rat_ink Goodness - the lengths Bertie goes to - literally!

Deep Space Network radio antennas… Martian orbiters relaying data… Laser technology… Sounds unromantic, right? Not at all! Without them, Bertie can’t nurture his amorous link with Astoria back on Earth. #30Words365 #Link #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Quiet, sunny weekends are critical for recovering from his high-pressure job. No surprise then, that somehow Dirk rams the neighbour’s early-Saturday-morning leaf-blower in the only place the sun don’t shine. #30Words365 #Somehow #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

@MrBrokenEyes You're amazing for somehow keeping us all going! Thank you as ever, Scott!

#30Words365 Day 264: #Somehow Somehow, I keep coming up with new words to throw at you, and somehow, you keep bringing back pure gold. #MicroLit #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #ImWriting

@MrBrokenEyes 👏👏👏yes!!! Perfect!

Hey @rat_ink . I finally figured out a name for the ship! It just came to me. The TSN Legacy. It’s perfect!

@poorab_pattnaik Amazing!!!

Hades felt a sudden fury when the three-headed dog started bringing back frisbees. He raised a flaming hand to strike, then sighed, threw the disc, and finally felt… almost happy. #30words365 #fury

@MrBrokenEyes This was hard today!

#30Words365 Day 262: #Legacy Let today’s 30 word story be our legacy to the #WritingCommunity . #MicroLit #FlashFiction #ImWriting

@elizjanehilton 😬

@rat_ink 😳

They hide deep under the ocean, elders schooling youngsters on their solemn legacy. Emerging into radioactive atmosphere decades later, their skin immediately blisters. Turns out they’d been extinct all along. #30Words365 #Legacy #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

@poorab_pattnaik ❤️❤️❤️

Her mother’s legacy was a pile of cracked spines and dog-eared corners. She read the underlined sentences and finally met the woman who existed under the heavy cloak of motherhood. #30words365 #legacy

@elizjanehilton 👏👏👏I struggled with this one today - yours is awesome!

Tears welled in my eyes as my kids and grand-kids sang the dreaded birthday song. Seventy years old. The number didn't thrill me, but I enjoyed surveying my extraordinary legacy. #30Words365 #legacy

@elizjanehilton 😁

@rat_ink 😄

30-word stories lodge in her head Unless coaxed with a nice glass of red. But this wine and creative practice Sometimes goes cactus And Astoria writes off the night instead. #30Words365 #Practice #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

@elizjanehilton Aaaah, the memories!

Face down, screaming, flailing limbs. Onlookers gawked, some smirking, others looking disgusted. Some shoppers turned their heads. Sam scooped up his little bundle of fury, grabbed the pram, and fled. #30Words365 #fury

Despite her fury, Josie feigns control with her calm, authoritative, persuasive tone. “You’re back late!” exclaims Dirk when she arrives home. “Where’s the number for that dog trainer?” she growls. #30Words365 #Fury #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

@poorab_pattnaik 😂😂😂

I waited for inspiration to strike, staring at the blinking cursor. It never arrived. So I closed my eyes for "clarity" and woke up two hours later with drool. #30words365 #strike