Inspiration point (IP)
This Week's Inspiration Point is to take any proverb and let it inspire a story or poem. Expecting cats killed by curiosity, chickens that have been counted prior to hatching, hands that feed you getting bitten, stitches in time and hot irons striking. I suspect it may have been an Inspiration Point in the past, but repetition is the mother of skill, as they say.
Inspiration point
Non, je ne regrette rien
‘It won’t be long now’, Belle hears the nurse say as she drifts back into the darkness. She knows she is dying. It’s fine. She’s warm and comfortable...
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Joe and Kevin (part 1) - Spoilt for Choice
A follow up to "Upon My Soul"
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The predestined affinity
Long, long time ago, a young scholar arranged to marry his lovely betrothed. Everything was well prepared on schedule. When the day came, the bride...
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Five In a Race
The latest Inspiration Point gave me an opportunity to rework a piece that had been inspired by a New Testament passage.This time I chose the five senses.
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