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
The ‘Miracle Fruit’* …
… contains ‘miraculin’, surprising molecule that binds to the sweet-detecting taste buds on the tongue, changing them so that for a while sour things...
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The secret touch!
Tomatoes are her kryptonite!
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The Chinese Kumquat
Inspiration point: fruit - (Edited and retitled.)
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Watch
What she loved was the watch. Well, there were many things that she loved in that old workshop, out the back of the shop where it was musty and dusty...
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Camp.
As with some things, in time word changes, or the meaning changes. I have always known this word camp. It was a drink that has always been in our...
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