A new report suggests that the “King of Planets” has the remains of other planets hidden inside it. Write from the point of view of a consumed planet.
Wednesday Nite Write: Ghostly Garments
Write a story based on this tweet.
Wednesday Nite Write: Potions
Write a story based on your three choices from this chart.
Wednesday Nite Write: Reanimation
Create a story based on this National Geographic article from 2019.
Wednesday Nite Write: Mammals
Write a story based on the Science article about mammals being able to breathe through their intestines.
Wednesday Nite Write: Ikaki
It’s a really warm spring night and you and your friends are at a club in northern Kentucky on the Ohio River. You see a beautiful person and, because you know, you recognize they are of the Ikaki* (fish folk). Use Big Boss Vette’s “Snatched” as inspiration.
*According to The Wagadu Chronicles, the Ikaki people are “fishers, soothsayers and sometimes pirates.”
Wednesday Nite Write: Water Spirits
You’re a child of Mami Wata living in Cincinnati near a body of water (your choice of Mill Creek or the Little Miami). You’re a clean water rights activist trying to get city council to help clean up pollution.
Note: Mami Wata (Mammy Water), or La Sirene, is a water spirit venerated in West, Central, Southern Africa, and in the African diaspora in the Americas. Mami Wata spirits are usually female but are sometimes male.
Wednesday Nite Write: Inkanyamba
Let’s continue the MerMay theme by creating a story including an Inkanyamba. According to Wikipedia, “The Inkanyamba is a legendary serpent said to be living in a waterfall lake area in the northern forests near Pietermaritzburg most commonly in the base of Howick Falls, South Africa.”
Wednesday Nite Write: Delicacies
Write a story based on the concept behind this tweet.
Wednesday Nite Write: Mythology
Write a flash story based on the character that fits you best.
Midwest Black Speculative Fiction Alliance 