Inspiration point (IP)

For this week’s inspiration point: It seems to have rained for weeks on end. It’s an age-old chestnut but a big canvas to draw inspiration from so please apply your imagination to stories and poems about the weather.

Inspiration point

Cherry

Saulina who was forbidden to smile (IP)

Once there was a king and a queen who lost their only child and they were so consumed with grief that they ordered that none within their kingdom...
Cherry

In the Skinny Days of Youth and Yearning

In the skinny days of youth and yearning, smiling was not permitted; too redolent with levity. This had to happen behind doors, or books, or fingers...
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Grave Visit (IP)

Black boots, brown boots in a line … ‘Look sad, ’cos smiling’s not permitted’, John said, to make me laugh or squeak …
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Cherry

This world was not made for agnostics (IP)

(Late IP : Get Committed) This world was not made for agnostics, she said. It's a believer's world. It's big and hard and unjust and you've got to hang on to something...

To what? (IP)

They say: Don’t try to be a champion unless you get committed, don’t expect the accolade unless you’ve concentrated wholly, fully, all your hours,...
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