Inspiration point (IP)
Today is the 100th birthday of naturalist Sir David Attenborough, himself a wonder of nature and one of our very, very few genuine national treasures. So this week, please write about an animal (or many animals, if you prefer!) Animals you love, or hate, or that give you the horrors, or that you once fleetingly glimpsed in passing. I look forward to seeing the results!
Inspiration point
Kleptoplasty*
Costasiella kuroshimae – tiny attrative sea slug, for picture google …
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The Fat Ones
An excerpt from my (stalled) novel-in-progress The Tallow Man — told entirely from the perspective of a herd of wild Andean guinea pigs ( Cavia...
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Life on Berth
Johnny the bottlenose dolphin nudged his friend, Cider with his smooth snout, ‘Watch out now, the monster is starting up her engines.’ ‘Oh no,...
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Platypus
A tale of how nature's strangest creature was made from leftovers.
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May the Second 1933
The birth of a legend.
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