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The Man Born Blind.
I love people watching, and sometimes it just amazes me, how we can have similar blood types, eye colour, grey hair and our hearts beat every single...
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Gym Pants
Jim was exhausted, from The 5 mile run. His shorts chaffing against his groin.
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Dodecaphobia

Not the dreaded Friday 13th
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A Christmas Tale With A Difference
The people of 'England' were facing a General Election, but what was going to happen this time? This was co-written by myself and my wife Wendy in 2006. We 'bounced' a few ideas off each other to write it together. As we are now facing another election, and at Christmas time, we both think it is the perfect time to post our joint work on my abctales account, with due credit to my wife Wendy Kirtley.
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The Upside-down Tree

a thousand-years-old and feeling its age,
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Head Over Heels
Head Over Heels In Love by Paul McCann Baby I’ve been running around all over the place , searching for love , you keep hiding , I keep chasing you ,...
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interrupted- finis
Day Interrupted- finis Thursday morning arrived. We were up early and ready to set out by 7 am. Rte. 41 South was decidedly crowded with the daily “...
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From winter to …

Gloved and capped, fingers chapped … dreary, weary … turn a key to …
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Another crack in the wall

Looking childhood in the face
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Talking with the spirits
Conversations with the disembodied Whenever you start off an article like this, people roll their eyes and say “Oh, boy. Here we go! “But, you can...
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