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When The Coal Truck Came To Town
When The Coal Truck Came To Town By Paul McCann When the coal men came into the street the word went out to get ready for a snatch . A few lads kept...
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In This House III
In the darkness, she dreamt. She saw the village in which she lived. Elm trees, which lined the roadside of her culdesac, shed their leaves, floating...
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Homeward Bound
Twenty years back Staggering homeward Several pints down A session with Kenny Which was far too many Whisky flask in my jacket Thinking I could hack...
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This is Poetry?
One of the first few sonnets I ever wrote... I took a word out of it today.
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Who's Aldo? (my new novel) audio extract
Hey everyone, My latest novel Who's Aldo? has been receiving great reviews in the media. And received a brilliant review from ABC Tales. I wanted to...
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The Gift Of Winter
The Gift Of Winter By Paul McCann When winter came men were seen wearing donkey jackets and women wore their scarfs . Children had mitten and gloves...
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The Winter Child
The Winter Child By Paul McCann As the rain turned to sleet , smoke poured from the chimney pots on top of the little houses around the streets ...
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1:4:10 Crait (Part 4)
Simplicity was almost exactly as she remembered. Although her time on the ship had been short, its layout and the events that occurred within were...
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The escape artist
Budgies don't sing but a happily chit-chatter hopping around all the time chatting pleasantly very much like sparrows. A brain as big as half a pea a...
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Inside one of the bacteria that have a compass and a motor …
Machines, machines, machines galore: molecular machines to … Three-dimensional chemical complexity, beautiful structure, amazing activity!
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Tautology in science fiction
Fallout and halo both have the same themes that says that rigid ideological systems always clash with one another The key individuals in both stories...
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Strange Days
This is a piece that didn't make it into the very unreliable Berlin memoir 'In the Mouth of the Bear'. (Available on the 'Zon, in big writing). It's just descriptive, it's not really about anything, so I left it out.
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Invitation to a Cocktail Waitress
Another poem poked at and fiddled with. Imagine it read in TW's bar-room growl while he smokes a cigarette. Image made by me at canva.com a collage of PD images
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Spring
The weight is over, glass half full upon us, for spring is here...
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Joy In The Journey
Take Joy for the journey when in your next fall call in the teen titan. with childlike elementary faith; They can solve your case. Turn to joy:...
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Planet Prison
“Death never scared me,” I say to an eagle. “Not until today.” It pays mind only to its decaying meal. “This was my favourite bench as a kid,” I add...
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T.Q.G.
January this year, while we were off for Christmas, over the holiday period, my daughter Meghan, was looking through Netflix for something for us...
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Saviour's Face
I recognised the stranger's face from a painting. (Inspired by Alexej von Jawlensky)
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Twice Told Tales
Sorry, did I already tell you that story? In a community like ours at Spring Run, where most of us are “well over 39,” many of us tell stories over...
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Totentanz
image is PD source wiki commons. Now that Netanyahu is intent on his own Crime of the Century. I thought I'd put all my Guignol, Teutonic Mediaeval, Holocaust, Apocalyptic (basically anything that mentions Totentanz) in the same collection. Don't wait up, it may take some time.
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