Welcome to The Ink Well!

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.

As for this story, you did a good job in following the conventions for a short story. It has an arc (beginning, conflict, resolution), dialog and character insight. There is one issue we would like to draw to your attention, so that you might avoid this in future writing for the Inkwell. At the end you address readers and ask readers opinion. Addressing readers like that is not part of conventional fiction form. It is called author intrusion and should always be avoided. We have posted a blog about author intrusion so writers might understand what it is and avoid it.

Again, welcome!