Inspiration point (IP)
This week's IP is a bit daft. Make up a word. There’s a grand tradition of nonce-words, Shakespeare was a master of them. A nonce word is for an occasion where you need a new word, just for now – or ‘for the nonce’. Anyway, make one up, write something containing it, about it, defining it or saying why you/we need it. Whatever you like. Good luck with your nonce-sence.
Inspiration point
A stopped Watch is right twice a day
I know a guy named Guy, who really loves to get high. He likes to make a rhyme but doesn't want to know the time So he wears a watch that's right...
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If You Wait Long Enough By the River...
....you’ll see the dead body of your enemy float by.
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Cloud in head
Although the sun is hanging in the sky like a bookkeeper that just signed up for the workshop 'the art of clowning', I don't feel that way at all. My...
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
He would come to the end of my bed, sometimes, late at night. Late, when the night itself was perfectly dark, but the light coming in from the window...
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Freaks' Gallery
These are the noises I grow up with, a child of the circus: the giant scraping sound of metal against metal as the squids bring our ship into dock...
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