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Singing Like A Hungry Scouser
Singing Like A Hungry Scouser By Paul McCann The spare change in my pocket was going jingle jangle and the steel heels on my shoes were going click...
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Cycle
Tension. The silence was so loud. Lore and Char had many words they wished to exchange with one another but the nature of their current situation...
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Fly me to Cuba.
Tonight the memory of the demise of Castro a few years ago and its attendant macabre carnival, stirred a melancholy recall in that part of my heart...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 52 (Epilogue)
I have written what seems a fairly brief epilogue but I feel like it works (maybe?) I'm never very confident about endings
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Run
Plans. Lore and Char were stood around a table, a holographic model of a star system floated between them. Lore traced a line from the fourth planet...
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Grandfather.
My grandfather’s front parlour always reeked of pipe tobacco and slowly passing time, time that was so reluctant to glide along that only a new war...
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Flaming Christmas Fare
The flaming pud was always a hit With our dog, my brothers and me Filled with spices of exotic hue We never quite knew just how to behave, How to...
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A Hare's Breath 5 - The Dark Hedges
The thoughts of an old fella on his return to a wee town in the North of Ireland in the 2020s and his love for hares and nostalgia.
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Here And After
Here And After By Paul McCann As he opened his eyes, he was looking down at himself there on a hospital bed with this doctor confirming he was...
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Living Dead Or Dead Alive
Living Dead Or Dead Alive By Paul McCann I could have died so easily just the other night but instead I just woke up and I was feeling all right ....
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Hit
Orange. Lore and Char were both sporting the same, orange jumpsuits as they ran through a labyrinth of concrete walls. The Hologram appeared beside...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 51
this is the end of the main book, though there is an epilogue of probaby 2 or 3 chapters, yet to be written. I'm going to go back to the beginning and start the rewrite now. it's been fun writing this, I still like it and I hope some people out there did too
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The Emperor’s New Vocabulary
It was about nine-thirty, and the Teddy-Boy starlings had just concluded their usual morning assault on our bird feeders. A gang of juvenile...
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Happy Christmas. Happy Christ mas. Happy CHRISTmas. Merry Christmas.
Happy Christmas. Happy Christ mas. Happy CHRISTmas. Merry Christmas. Was in my home town last night, I had gone to buy two very special cards, one...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 50
we should go to a launderette, says petula why, I say we have a lot of washing, she says yeah, would be a few loads in my machine, I say is there one...
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Bonding
Running. Lore sprinted after the figure. Lore watched as their past ran effortlessly through the open streets and, to start, thought they’d struggle...
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A Season at the Center of the Universe: Cecil Taylor at the Take 3 (Part One)
https://www.abctales.com/story/robert-levin/season-center-universe-cecil-taylor-take-3-part-two The following, a remembrance of a Cecil Taylor gig in the early 1960s, is a chapter from "Going Outside: Fiction • Commentary • Jazz." Published by Cyberwit.
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A Season at the Center of the Universe: Cecil Taylor at the Take 3 (Part Two)
The following, a remembrance of a Cecil Taylor gig in the early 1960s, is a chapter from "Going Outside: Fiction • Commentary • Jazz." Published by Cyberwit.
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The Quick and The Dead.
No one expected it. It could have all been a lot worse!! When I heard there had been gun shots, yesterday morning, in Austrillia. But hours later the...
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Bondi Before Christmas Day
Bondi Before Christmas Day By Paul McCann Just before Christmas day some thoughts of poetry began to come . I sat down and thought about Bondi and...
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