Inkwell & Friends Publishing

Coloring My Future

Coloring My Future invites young dreamers to explore a world of possibilities through creativity, imagination, and play. Each page introduces children to different careers while giving them the freedom to color, wonder, and imagine themselves in roles they may never have considered. More than a coloring book, it’s an invitation to start asking one exciting question: What could I become?

Childhood Friends

Childhood Friends is a haunting story about friendship, memory, and the things we carry with us long after childhood ends. When the past begins reaching into the present, familiar memories take on unsettling new meanings and the boundaries between what was remembered and what was real begin to blur. Blending psychological suspense with the supernatural, Childhood Friends explores how deeply our earliest relationships can shape the people we become—and what happens when the past refuses to stay in the past.

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The Space Between Breaths

The Space Between Breaths is a short story that explores what can happen in the smallest moments—the ones we barely notice before they are gone. Blending the supernatural with questions of memory, mortality, and the unseen forces that shape our lives, the story invites readers into a world where the familiar suddenly becomes uncertain. Brief but unsettling, The Space Between Breaths lingers on a haunting possibility: perhaps there is more happening between one breath and the next than we were ever meant to see.

AMEN

AMEN is a short story that explores faith, certainty, and the unsettling consequences of believing we fully understand forces larger than ourselves. Dark, thought-provoking, and quietly disturbing, the story asks what can happen when conviction leaves no room for doubt—and when an answer arrives that no one was prepared to receive.

The House That Kept Receipts

The House That Kept Receipts is a short story about a house that remembers more than the people who lived within it might wish. As the past begins to make itself known, old choices and forgotten moments refuse to remain safely buried. Unsettling and darkly imaginative, the story explores memory, consequence, and the uncomfortable possibility that some places keep an accounting of everything we leave behind.

Childhood Friends Teacher Edition

The Childhood Friends Teacher Edition pairs the complete story with classroom-ready lesson plans and discussion prompts designed to take students deeper into the text. Lessons invite students to explore themes of memory and grief while examining symbolism, supernatural ambiguity, and the emotional power of ordinary objects and remembered places. The activities encourage close reading, thoughtful discussion, and interpretation while giving students opportunities to consider how writers use familiar experiences to create something unsettling and meaningful.

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The Space Between Breaths: Teacher Edition

The Space Between Breaths Teacher Edition pairs the complete short story with classroom-ready lessons designed to help students examine how much meaning a writer can create within a small amount of space. Lessons explore characterization, symbolism, foreshadowing, ambiguity, and the ways authors use pacing and carefully chosen details to build tension and atmosphere. Students are also invited to consider the story’s larger questions about mortality, memory, and the moments that can change our understanding of the world around us.

AMEN: Teacher Edition

The AMEN Teacher Edition pairs the complete short story with classroom-ready lessons that invite students to examine the relationship between faith, certainty, doubt, and human understanding. Lessons explore characterization, symbolism, irony, point of view, theme, and the ways writers use ambiguity to challenge a reader’s assumptions. Through close reading, discussion, and written reflection, students consider how perspective shapes belief and what can happen when certainty leaves little room for questions.

The House That Kept Receipts: Teacher Edition

The House That Kept Receipts Teacher Edition pairs the complete short story with classroom-ready lessons that encourage students to examine the relationship between memory, choices, and consequences. Lessons explore setting, symbolism, personification, characterization, theme, and the ways writers can transform an ordinary place into an active presence within a story. Through close reading, discussion, and writing activities, students consider how the past shapes the present—and how authors use objects, places, and details to reveal what their characters might rather leave forgotten.