Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

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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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The Mirror of Me

They only ever bumped into one another when they were alone; she always seemed to find them then. Neither resented their arrangement, just the...
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Labyrinthine Apparition

I find myself in a building that resists definition—part university, part manor house, a place with too many corridors and too much history. The air...
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In a moment …

“I just bumped into a wall. I knew it was there and thought …
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Time to Rise and Shine!

They say … we better function if we’re woken by music not BUZZ! BUZZ! – it isn’t the words of a song but the pattern of notes that help calm the alarm – …
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Story of the week

The Lonely Goose on The Durme

I was planning to write about this bird, the new IP seemed a good place for it. . . . pic taken by me