Story, Poem and Inspiration Point of the Week.

This week's winning story is told from the perspective of a young girl and the narrator's voice is utterly convincing.  Fantastic sentiments on show but never sentimental.  Well done love_writing for:

Bottle Johnny

The contributions from the poets this week has made picking a winning submission nigh on impossible.  In the end I had to settle on a tie between Last Request by EB: 

Last Request

it's a poem that at once touches on minute details and universal themes, and

a contribution to Vera Clark's immensely successful Poetry Monthly initiative takes joint first place.  It's a poem that is surprising and taught, personal and overarching.  Chinook by Philip Sidney is superb:  

Chinook (Poetry Monthly)

Inspiration Point

For this week's inspiration point I'd like to suggest the theme of meteorology and that you take it in any direction you'd like!

Good luck everyone and have a great sun-filled weekend,

Peter.