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

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...

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

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...

Tea and a Belgian Bun! I.P. 1171 Words

Tea and a Belgian Bun! I.P. 1177 Words 'So what did you do with the body?' “That was the first thing I heard as I sipped my tea in the supermarket...

The Couple Next Door (IP)

Mr Martin banged upon the door of flat number 111. It was time, he thought, that he gave the couple in that flat a piece of his mind. He had had...
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