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
Unspoken Of (Part 1 of 2)
In my family, we don’t talk about my brother. It’s always just been like that. I don’t remember anybody ever telling me not to mention him, or ever...
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here be dragons
I always end up in the pub no one else drinks in, where a hot water tap in the toilet is regarded as a needless luxury, only poofs and people that...
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All Smoke And No Mirrors
My dad looked, not unlike a classical sculpture, roman nose, hollow cheeks, almond-shaped eyes, tanned skin, close wavy hair. He was sporty, he could...
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The Piano
(investment returns 25 years after his death)
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When Daddy Comes Home
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