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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 45
we left ginny in the pub with patrycja she definitely did wake up, arms and legs everywhere pints dribbling from her chin sat next to her, had the...
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“Blessed are the peacemakers …”
Brothers, neighbours, nearby nations: misjudgements, misunderstandings ancient grievances hatred set in stone, each others’ characters unknown, – and...
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Finding the Give in Bernard Manning
She deduced he was the comic because he was in want of a smile. He also wanted the corner table dead on ten to. He wanted a pitcher of Theakstons and...
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The Slope Between Us
We knew it from the start - not with words, but with that quiet intuition that slips beneath the ribs when two people recognise a beauty they cannot...
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Run OF The Arrow
Suddenly, a glimmer of hope caught Quinn's eye. Ahead, the endless plain gave way to a shallow, rocky rise. Not a mountain, not even a hill, but a...
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Inquisitoriam
Shaking. Loren was still holding the Faochite corpse, quaking in fear, anger, sorrow, confusion. The police did their best to keep the crowds back...
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Silly nonsense.
Footsteps on a gravel path after midnight are generally associated with intruders of malevolent intent. The crunch rings out clearly in an otherwise...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 44
how do you find my style to read? for me, long blocks of text with regular punctuation are difficult to navigate this feels easier to write and to read my brain is wired weird
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The Ripple Path
Life moves in circles, well at least that’s how I see it, soft as rings on still water, each moment touching the next before we even notice. We rush...
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Overnight bus to Delhi.
I got on a bus. Light was already draining from the late, wet afternoon sky. The seats were wooden with no padding and I just knew that the moving...
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A Look At Life Through Cat’s Eyes
A Look At Life Through Cat’s Eyes By Paul McCann Betty Whitherspoon was pulling down the blinds in the front parlour just as the street lights were...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 43
I stand at the top of monte igueldo looking out over la concha bay where we have been on the beach most of the day it looks vast from up here ginny...
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The Big Picture
I think you'll most likely work this one out for yourselves. Image is by Thomas Nugent licence CC BY-SA 2.0
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A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares.
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Protests
Loud. The room fell away and a crowd replaced it, concrete and rebar became people and flags. The Hologram stood beside Lore as they spotted Loren...
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Rest In Peace, Hazel VI
Two years ago tonight, I watched you die. It made me unhappy and I started to cry. I saw the life leave your body and it was unpleasant to see. You...
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Christmas Time
Waves of time go flowing back to Christmas time snow on the ground carol being sang everyone looks so cold there freeze cold to the bone and then...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 42
back at the beach, I can see the women ginny bouncing up and down patrycja lying back on the sand petula sat upright, slightly apart hands clasping...
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Refer To Drawer
Frustration is our persistent hum, our tinnitus, a worry-worm growing fat on our fragile assumptions. It lurks in the pale mist of our waking where...
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run of the arrow, chapter 1 blood arrow
Quinn glanced over his shoulder. The main body of riders was still a mile or so back, their silhouettes shimmering like dark phantoms in the heat...
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