Inspiration point (IP)

The first Christmas tree has gone up just over the road from me. The city where I live is clogged with eager visitors to The Christmas Market. I have my own views about Christmas starting in November, but each to their own. The Inspiration Point this week is: Anticipation.

Inspiration point

An Errant Son Returns

I woke up at five o'clock that morning. It made little difference. I barely slept a wink the previous night. I had been thinking of going back home...
Cherry

The Return (Part 2 of 2)

I wake up to a crisp dawn. I wake up beside the window I slept beside in childhood. My old room. My old wallpaper. There’s a rip in the carpet just...
Gold cherry

The Return (Part 1 of 2)

They don’t want me back there. This much I know. This much I’m expecting. There’s nobody there who’ll be glad to see me. And, well, I don’t know if I...

As The World Hold Its Breath.....

As the World holds its breath, we hope for complete success of all thirteen children and their Coach will come up to the surface, from the caves...
Cherry

From a troopship, July 1945

The place – he’s in a troopship on the way; the why? long journey home, he fills each day recalling memories of years abroad in war, his toil...

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