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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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