Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Waiting, in Candlelight

Candles flicker many an hour: gales so strong, supply of power broken …
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I lit a thin green candle
I remember when my half-sister came to stay, seven years older than me and full of energy, like a whirlwind dropping into the quiet rhythm of our...
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The Curse of Eternal life

pic taken at home on my iPhone
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Stormy Night Of Passion
Fading into night, stars intrinsic to space and time twinkle, while chilly forked branches interlace; those giants stand tall watching over living...
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Goth Kit (IP)

At seventeen, I was a goth. A serious goth. I lived in skin-tight black drainpipes, slippery viscose shirts, eyeliner so sharp it could cut glass,...
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Tommy Cooper's Fez

Once upon a time in Cairo,
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Whose shoes?

…When she got off the bouncy castle … where were her new boots? …
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Kathleen’s Secret

Based on an oft-told story of my father’s. Kathleen and the hat definitely existed until the early 1960s but I’d be a fool to promise that the rest of his tale is true.
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The fickleness of new daylight

Honestly, I am not even fully awake when I discover a red-haired woman with a fire-breathing dragon tattooed on her neck sitting on my toilet. Okay,...
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