This week’s micro challenge focuses on dialogue!

Below you’ll find five dialogue prompts and three people. Choose any prompt you like from the list and a speaker. Choose a second person to be your addressee. Write a conversation—that is, dialogue only!—in which your chosen prompt is spoken. Aim for about 500 words.

Finished?

Rewrite the conversation with a different speaker and addressee.

Posting is optional, but if you do, I’d love to see it! Leave me a comment below, tag  @Fictionseed.com on Bluesky or tag @fictseed on Tumblr

The Prompts:

• “I shouldn’t have tossed it in, but I did.”
• “How does one retrieve a wish from the well?”
• “Wishing harm and doing harm might be the same in this case.”
• “No one ever explains the rules of wells and pools anymore.”
• “I think anyone dropping good coin in a well is a fool.”

The people:

• An old enchantress
• A mermaid
• A small child