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
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...
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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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An Aural Spy! (IP)
It isn’t good to eavesdrop but when you have the care of a very aging couple and one can hardly hear – the other has confusion –
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How men first learned to make fire (IP)
Fire was discovered a long time ago when people still lived in caves instead of houses. The beautiful, red haired daughter of the chief of a tribe of...
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Infinite Mind
I'm locked-away in a small white room that contains nothing but a mattress and three rigid, hard blankets. One as a pillow; one as a blanket and one...
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