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
The Out of Body Secret
Having had the letter from Grace, we were prepared for her phone call. “Your dad is not doing well. I think you had better come home,” she said...
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My Mother Myself
A Monday in the long, hot summer of 1983, headed for Tooting Bec Asylum.
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Stuck in the middle (I.P.)
Clowns are usually small in stature (besides that they are a little chubby too) but this clown in the town of Valencia was over two meters long (and...
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Christmas Round Robins (IP)
No Robin rubbin’, feathers ruffling … Like a face-book page it may get trite, artificial, trivial, and sounding over-bright, how much to say? should keep it brief, and remember some recipients may be struggling with grief
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Round Robin (IP)
I saw a robin, round and red. “I think I’ll draw that bird”, I said. I drew a circle for a head; a beak and eyes of blue. I drew its body, red and...
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