Inspiration point (IP)
This week's Inspiration Point is all about furniture; tell us tales and poems about armchairs, coffee tables, bookshelves and beds. Will look forward to lying on the sofas of them and putting my feet up on their pouffes.
Inspiration point
Metamorphosis (I.P.)
Our gang was the fiercest on the estate. Smiling wasn’t permitted because to grin was seen as socialising with the enemy and that was worse than a mortal sin.
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Saulina who was forbidden to smile (IP)
Once there was a king and a queen who lost their only child and they were so consumed with grief that they ordered that none within their kingdom...
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In the Skinny Days of Youth and Yearning
In the skinny days of youth and yearning, smiling was not permitted; too redolent with levity. This had to happen behind doors, or books, or fingers...
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Grave Visit (IP)
Black boots, brown boots in a line … ‘Look sad, ’cos smiling’s not permitted’, John said, to make me laugh or squeak …
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This world was not made for agnostics (IP)
(Late IP : Get Committed) This world was not made for agnostics, she said. It's a believer's world. It's big and hard and unjust and you've got to hang on to something...
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