Inspiration point (IP)
This Week's Inspiration Point is to take any proverb and let it inspire a story or poem. Expecting cats killed by curiosity, chickens that have been counted prior to hatching, hands that feed you getting bitten, stitches in time and hot irons striking. I suspect it may have been an Inspiration Point in the past, but repetition is the mother of skill, as they say.
Inspiration point
Early
It started in November. 5:15, then 5:00. His body dragged him from the sheets as though a debt had just come due. He made the coffee. Drove to work...
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- 15 reads
Different perspectives
No idea what it involves? Not going along with the doom-doom stories Not counting aloud the seconds until daybreaks when our planet deflates like a...
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- 19 reads
Those Three Words
It was a hot summer night and the beach was burning; a perfect day. She was perfect. The sea glistened on her, salt like diamonds as her heat turned...
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- 21 reads
The Call Of Death (IP)
It was a misty, damp morning when the call came. My mobile sprang to life and woke me from my dreams with a start. The screen was bright and...
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- 55 reads
Here's to You, Lady Liberty
Understanding why Carolina, Harper and I never met in the flesh.
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- 341 reads