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
Surface Tension
"Goldfish only have a memory span of five seconds.” “A few – that’s true, but others can remember too much..."
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Judgement
Judgement The interrogation room was stifling and smelled of rotten corpses. Timothy sat at the end of a bland wooden desk, shuffling through a stack...
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History Beneath Our Feet
Below the surface.
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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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