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
Letters From Hell
Dear Neil, It has been a long time since my last letter, six months, I think. I know, I promised to write weekly, but I am trusting you will...
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Slabberin
‘Wat tha fuk ar youy slabberin abouyt?’ Pink drink drips from his wide wet lips. He’s about a foot wider than me and a fair few brain cells shorter. I’ve never been in a fight before. It’s quite exciting but I hope nobody’s watching because I’m not sure my couch Kung-Fu is going to be strong enough.
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Black
On a good night the sky was black, out here in the Larkworth Hills. Better, some said, to be higher up, because the algae didn't bloom as well so...
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White
It was time to go. Erica stood on a steel platform, staring up at the ship. It was massive. She somehow hadn't expected it to be so huge. The hull...
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Green
It got harder over time to keep the garden going. It wasn't just in terms of the time it took, the other demands on her, the tiredness. All those...
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