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Why did the earthworm want to go across the road? … was the grass there greener? …

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 and bicycles and not being shot at and having a jumper to wear that doesn’t smell of sick.

I thought I had heard about all the major bad things in the world. Some things little or small I have read about on social media, as they slowly...

The Arizona dust tasted like copper and old regrets. Quinn spat a mouthful of tobacco out the window of the rumbling stagecoach. Beside him, perched...

" David Beckham has been in this kitchen,” said Tom. “Sir David Beckham?” I said. “Really, when?” “When he was at school,” said Julie. “His...

Our marriage has survived some forty-seven years and even at times prospered, but during the dangerously unstable location of the Kitchen it has come...

and he added as an afterthought , “I myself have no quixotic impulses, so I might as well stay here.” 1.26. Might as well burn another one, Major...

five thirty on a monday morning the streets empty sunrise blocked by the buildings along western road somewhere, down there over the sea a red glow...

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Zechariah … Mary… Joseph … Elizabeth’s boy while in the womb leapt up in joy!