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Lying in Lissadell.

There's an old log that lies rotting on the shore at Lissadell, right where the shingle meets the fields. It's lain there for as long as I've been...

Ghigau 19

Sunday The weather showed no sign of abating and the sun rose fierce and unfiltered, like some alien weapon sent to destroy the world. Newsreaders...

Mama

I just listened to a voicemail from my mama: Thaddeus Jack, if you don't call me back in the next ten minutes I'm gonna drive down to Florida myself...
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Worst Case Scenario - Being Peter To Save Paul (Part Three)

‘I quit this, I quit the trip. I go home. I work a string of meaningless jobs. Eventually I quit those too, and somehow manage to quit all the way to...
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The Ride -5 of 5

Continued from Part 4 The Ride-4 | ABCtales Frank finished early again the following evening. He’d promised Lisa the ultimate pub crawl. They got...
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The Ride-4

Continued from Part 3 The Ride -3 | ABCtales They were in Solly’s - a backstreet boozer just north of the container port. The riverside district was...

A City Full Of Singers

A City Full Of Singers By Paul McCann The colours of a rainbow arched themselves over the land as the sea link ferry docked at the Port of Dublin ...
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Alexander (5)

Luther unexpectedly offers Alexander new accomodation.
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Alexander (4)

Alexander and Luther are chosen for a prestigious job.

November graveyard with a robin.

The sun shone on the snow-covered graveyard this afternoon, a place where the atmosphere was heavy with memories, sadness, longing and hope. Beside...
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Running (Episode 33 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))

In which Dolly gets some help with questioning Aefelthrith and Gwladys takes on some weighty responsibilities.
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The Ride -3

Continued from Part 2 The Ride-2 | ABCtales It was six weeks later, late August. Frank was back in Liverpool, working on the next issue. He was at...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 26

This chapter is all dialogue so I have formatted it differently. I may change the dialogue format throughout the book in the next edit, not sure yet.
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The Ride-2

Continued from Part 1 The Ride-1 | ABCtales Frank groaned as his phone alarm played its maddening little tune; one of these days he’d get round to...
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The Ride-1

THE RIDE So, it had all been arranged, virtually on the spur of the moment. They were to meet at Euston, with their bikes, in time for the 08.46 slow...
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The Discharge

There was no sign of Mr Grant. No sign of anyone as a matter of fact. It was a miracle not to hear the TV blaring, to witness it in the state of off...
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The Smell of Other Worlds

Every two months or so, I go to the médiathèque for a life drawing session, and the atmosphere is always strangely reverent, as if we’re about to...
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Alexander (3)

Having travelled to a new town, Alexander finds work; he's also offered a place to stay.
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Watching You Chapters Thirty-One and Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-One The sound of shouting had died away; his pursuers were somewhere below, searching the ramp. But still Withers remained in the...
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Alexander (2)

Life on the farm is hard; Alexander and Danuta's relationship develops.
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