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

Cherry

Visions Carried On The Wind

Sombre billows shed their weeping, pitter – patter teeters window pane; listening to healing descent of rain. In this quiet room where darkness...
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Gold cherry

KHEPRI

Thank you Eds. for the cherry yesterday which seems to have arrived at the same time I removed this for some 'tinkering'
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Gold cherry
Story of the week

The Lilliputians in the vegetable patch - IP

In literature, we often stumble across inventions—names, ideas, phrases—that become so deeply ingrained in our culture that we forget their origins...

Wonderful.

I remember when I was 60, a friend told me, "Ring up and ask for your free bus pass," I rang up and was told, "It used to be 60, now it has gone up...

Mahler

The cliff house crumbles; its ghosts drift slower.
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Story of the week

On the Wind

Gordon Baker was walking home after a very long day, a dry day in which he’d agonised over figures, the measly budget he’d been given, trying to...
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Cherry

Visible signs of the invisible

I heard the loose guttering shake, and I heard (not really awake) the tree branches creak and the garden gate squeak: so I knew that the wind was...
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A Great Idea.

I have no problem drinking tap water, we are very fortunate in England to have excellent clean drinking water. I thought I had a brainwave, I asked...

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Yesterday I felt a sense of doom, for most of the day, had been at work, and in the back of my mind, something was wrong. I didn't know what was...