Story, Poem and Inspiration Point of the Week

My apologies for a delay to the Picks of the Week. January’s already launching me curve balls but I’m fairly light on my feet and will continue to dodge them imperviously. Wishing you all a year full of beautiful things: unexpected laughter, notebooks full of first drafts, birds writing liberty across the sky, a rainbow in a teacup.  Two sharp, bold pieces for you this week:

Poem of the Week goes to Noo. There’s far more to grief than the Kubler-Ross model and this poem smashes an unsaid open with startling honesty:

https://www.abctales.com/story/noo/bristol-blue-glass

Story of the Week goes to Airyfairy for delivering us safe (ish) into 2017 with a squirt of pithy humour and a refreshing concept formerly known as Hope:

https://www.abctales.com/story/airyfairy/not-quite-eve-destruction-2017-ip

Your I.P is to write the outcome of your New Year’s resolution as though you’re already twelve months on. So, does the fat woman get thin or is she still sucking the jelly off Jaffa Cakes early 2018?