Inspiration point (IP)

This week's Inspiration Point is to write a poem or story that features a musical instrument. Old guitars, haunted pianos, lost mandolins, talking maracas...I look forward to reading about them all!

Inspiration point

Cherry

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...
Cherry
Story of the week

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...
Gold cherry

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...

Merry-go-round

Daily life a jolly circus, busy, dizzy, loud and raucous, zero tolerance of boredom, caught in hedonistic thraldom, bright the lights, the music...

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