Inspiration point (IP)
Lille Dante's wonderful series based around song titles is an absolute joy to read, and so I'm unashamedly nicking that idea for this week's Inspiration Point, which is: Reasons To Be Cheerful. Hoping ABC Talers will lighten some of the pervasive gloom at the moment! (I don't need to remind you, of course, that you cannot quote directly from the song, copyright and all that.)
Inspiration point
Round of the Floating Choir
Something so intimate, something so delicate, starts slowly and full of hope; its over in a moment. Condensed in a single point, all it takes is a...
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Evolutionary Myths
They used to say, Some things are relics in our bodies from previous non-human ancestors – vestigal, useless now, like the vermiform appendix, but...
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Legless
Legless. He stands on the pavement, under the sign, in exactly one place. Wobbling, swaying, leaning this way, then that way. Never setting off but...
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Jenkins’ Ear
'Go tell your king that we'll do this to him,' they said, as they chopped off his ear You're not wanted here, the Americas are ours, we hold the...
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Admission (2)
He moved on. A Fiji Mermaid — a monkey's torso stitched to a dried fish tail, seams visible, the face a shriveled primate grimace. GENIUNE FIJI...
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