Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Too much to say to bother with consonants!
‘What is the picture on your birthday card?’ "box!”* ‘What does it say inside? What is that letter?’ “Uh for Deidi!*” ‘Where have you been this...
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Information highway
‘Is it possible to be truly anonymous online?’ he asked himself as he was looking for a long-lost friend with whom he shared a traumatic experience...
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Competition
Goosegrass shoots up clinging, climbing choking, smothering the hedge …
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The game of life
‘Ok people, we have a contest on our hands,’ Lenny shouted at the six broken and bruised faces in front of him. He walked around the room, the girls...
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When in Rome
The Romans were known to enjoy the odd contest
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Two Contests
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] In place of armies’ warring slaughter, each should choose one man to fight, theirs was nine feet tall, in...
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The contest of life
The demand for a place in Scoil Realt na Mara, the school I once went to, has grown exponentially. Since the completion of the new housing estate...
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The Click
There she sits. She sits and she waits for her time to come. Every Wednesday she waits for the people on high to descend upon her to tell her if they...
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Still Light
It was still light but a star pushed towards darkness, like a wild flower refusing to stay in the earth, above the city, above the river, cool in a...
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Any Hard Task
It was still an up-hill pull with determined will to fully fulfil the task undertaken and reach the top not stop or flop or trip or slip or sleep,...
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