Inspiration point (IP)
Our new Inspiration Point, with grateful thanks to SoulFire77 for the suggestion:
"The Thing You Kept... But Shouldn't Have." This could be a physical object, memory, or an inherited trait.
Poetry or prose, fact or fiction. Good luck!
Inspiration point
Rain on Red Earth
I was revising older poems, so posting this now under Inspiration point as a good place. Sleep out: an outside bedroom on a veranda - I've slept in a few. Iron roof: The traditional corrugated metal, cools quicker at night. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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So glad you made it
She takes the rubber duck out of the basket, places the plastic animal on the tray and walks to the back of the restaurant. Once she is seated, she...
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Familiar Faces
She hadn’t lived there for very long, just over a year and it was all so different to what she’d known. It was a new beginning. A glistening...
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Cultural Collision
I bumped into a different land and was blown away by a cultural collision, which I hope the reader will be too through my now hazy recollections of...
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Larking about in the dark
“Let’s play in the dark”, said big sister. “Yes”, said little sister. Curtains drawn, lights out — what a lark! Bump! Waa-aa-aagh-aagh!! Lights on. ‘...
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