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
Grey
Nina Hockson sat curled on her aqua-blue couch, legs pulled up against her chest, watching the sunrise. She kept thinking one day she would see...
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Saffron
Tara stood on the low wall surrounding the fountain. She was shouting, but she'd almost forgotten what she was shouting about. The slogans all ran...
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Silver
Drayton walked. He just walked. He couldn't go back to Nina's place, to her awful couch and her scared, pitying eyes; but he couldn't stand the...
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Blue
One red. One green. He watched them out of a greasy, cloudy window – the woman in the red dress, the man in the forest green shirt. On a street...
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Red
He loved that dress on her. Red, neatly fitting around her slim upper body, skirt flowing in petals to just above her knee. Tiny LEDs around the...
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