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! 

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The Souvenir of a dream (Journey IP)

There was once a man who, whenever he dreamed that he had travelled to a certain place, would always bring back something from the dream with him. If...

To the Guy Who Won't Commit

Dear guy who won’t commit, To the guy who won’t commit But has me wrapped around his finger Whose mind at times seems present But his heart will...

Between here and there

what’s behind that next corner, around the far bend … step back into life with its many dimensions

“One up!” “Two down!”

Two rural teenagers waiting on a bench aware of naivety in urban fashion-sense: ‘One up’ ‘two down!’ ‘one down’ ‘oh,three up, there!' – with clothes of passers-by, their own compare! …

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