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Untitled Chapter 2

the ten years in between left me in tatters, my mind enfeebled daily by the shit I consumed, great beers to bad porn, they ate away at my carcass and...

Mother Of Authority

Mother Of Authority By Paul McCann Mother of authority remove from my mind any distraction that would prevent my thinking from being true . Mother of...

After The Final Judgement

After The Final Judgement by Paul McCann The authorised proceedings are an account of those who stood for judgement on the last day after all the...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 33

The banquet table in Perfidia’s massive, living room was laden with an array of tantalizing comfort foods. The mingling aromas drew the men from the...

ELSPETH.

It has been a long day. For may years I had worked at the local school, I had got to know the children, parents, teachers, and members of the public...

The Riddle of Billie Joe

Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Author: neiljs this image, originally posted to Flickr, under the stated license
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The Agent - Part 1

1. It's Always the Old Woman Selling houses was no different than any other profession; it took hard work, determination, and the occasional attic-...

After The Storm - (haikus)

Day after the storm- Hollyhocks hang onto life Buddleia bow heads. The red rose looks up in wonder at the flutter- Autumn butterfly.
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Autumnal Haiku

Small, sparse, skeletal- The tree seen from my window- sums up the season!
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Perspective

Fusion fireball rises, though it is we …
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The snow women of Ispwich

Lived during the last ice age In an area they had no idea would one day have a football club called Ipswich town They didn’t know about the blues...
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The outline

Some dreams never arrive, and yet they leave a trace - the clean-edged hollow of what might have been. We speak of emptiness as if it’s nothing, but...
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Not All Pianos Have 88 Keys

10th March 2025 Dear Jon, It has been an age since we spoke way back in the wilderness of Covid. I write from a proper desk this time, not some...

Something To Tell The Grandkids.

Every year my wife, kids and myself go on holiday to the same place. We go there every Summer, our neighbours might think we are a pest, but we are...
Gold cherry

Please Follow My Instructions ( For This You Will Need a Blood Orange)

i) There is a blood orange on the table but it is not for eating. Citrus sinensis. Blood oranges are the result of a spontaneous genetic mutation...

Fall Haiku

Leaves on fire hanging from black boughs, burning colorful deaths; cool, living air
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I'll be leaving

Don't matter what you say or do I ant going to stay with you you ask me what what do you think I say to you oh we been down that road The story,...

Sea Legs

Why hasn't the sea got legs when it hurdles my senses with such consumate ease in playful reminder of our primordial heritage touching the very...
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Crying along with me

A flower said it all all those memories I recall ,of you and me how happy we use to be and now the sun is crying along with me I hugs myself as tears...

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