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
Aston Junction
Quiet and cool in the concrete cave beneath a criss-cross of humming roads the only movement - a slow ooze of condensation down clammy walls. A...
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Who Knows?
Perhaps I do not know myself. I say, I am quiet, I should live a life of solitude, they say, you! and laugh and point and stamp their feet. I say, I...
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Fishing with Gramps
Sundays were fishing with Gramps...
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Superficial (IP)
Where are you? I can’t find you! You’re hiding there below … find a kinship and respect a trust that can connect – no friendship shallow, polite and hollow: so take the risk to …
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Zone Red
“Leave the money on the pillow, close the door before you go; it’s freezing in this hell-hole and the meter’s running low!”
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