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 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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Animal
It's near sunset; blue skies; pink clouds. orange-colored sun lets me know its time to run A beaten-down sandy path in-between whispering trees, the...
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