Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

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Familiar Faces

She hadn’t lived there for very long, just over a year and it was all so different to what she’d known. It was a new beginning. A glistening...
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Cultural Collision

I bumped into a different land and was blown away by a cultural collision, which I hope the reader will be too through my now hazy recollections of...
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Larking about in the dark

“Let’s play in the dark”, said big sister. “Yes”, said little sister. Curtains drawn, lights out — what a lark! Bump! Waa-aa-aagh-aagh!! Lights on. ‘...
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The Mirror of Me

They only ever bumped into one another when they were alone; she always seemed to find them then. Neither resented their arrangement, just the...
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Labyrinthine Apparition

I find myself in a building that resists definition—part university, part manor house, a place with too many corridors and too much history. The air...
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A Coming-Together

Laura entered the lunchtime staff room like a breath of fresh air, attracting the usual suppressed glances of admiration from everyone, except Colin...
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In a moment …

“I just bumped into a wall. I knew it was there and thought …
Cherry

Time to Rise and Shine!

They say … we better function if we’re woken by music not BUZZ! BUZZ! – it isn’t the words of a song but the pattern of notes that help calm the alarm – …
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Story of the week

The Lonely Goose on The Durme

I was planning to write about this bird, the new IP seemed a good place for it. . . . pic taken by me