Inspiration point (IP)

Our new Inspiration Point, with grateful thanks to SoulFire77 for the suggestion:

"The Thing You Kept... But Shouldn't Have." This could be a physical object, memory, or an inherited trait.

Poetry or prose, fact or fiction. Good luck!

Inspiration point

Servant or Tyrant (IP)

Rapid chemical reactions, exothermic oxidations … valued highly when a servant … terribly destructive tyrant …
Cherry

Lightening Strikes Twice (I.P.)

It was the graveyard shift for Steve. He’d read once that they used to watch graveyards at night in case they’d buried someone alive, so the term still stuck centuries later. Imagine sitting in a deserted graveyard with a full moon rising over crooked gravestones covered in weeds with only the dead for company.
Gold cherry

Malingee the Bush Ghost (I.P.)

Malingee click clacks Skip skrip skrape Stone on stone clip clops Two burning peepers pip peeping Knees of rock that knock Stay away from Malingee’s...

The Music of the Dead

Midnight in New Orleans. The streets are empty. Windows are devoid of light. A sticky heat oppresses those attempting to sleep along this once-...

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