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
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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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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