Inspiration point (IP)
Our new Inspiration Point, with grateful thanks to SoulFire77 for the suggestion:
"The Thing You Kept... But Shouldn't Have." This could be a physical object, memory, or an inherited trait.
Poetry or prose, fact or fiction. Good luck!
Inspiration point
A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Two
I remember sitting at breakfast that morning, asking mama how long we would be able to stay at Uncle and Aunts. “ My dear Emily,” she replied in her...
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Addictions.
There are lots of different kinds of addictions. I suppose if I had to put them into categories, I would put them as mild, medium, strong, severe,...
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African Memories
Old Madala, a picannin friend and I passed time in mouth-watering anticipation. Under the Mopana tree, which stood near their khia at the end of our...
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Swallow pride, ask Dad, listen…
I was a teenager, age about 15. I’d learnt to float happily when we regularly visited the beautiful quiet cove at Cwm-yr-eglwys in north Pembrokeshire. But I couldn’t swim. My father tried to teach me, but I think I was too stubborn to listen properly … But now I wanted to go to a youth camp back in Wales with a friend, on Bala lake …
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A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part One
Becoming governess and traveling with a wealthy family, didn't seem like a problem. I was living my life to the full, but I should have perceived the...
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