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Barbers protect men’s egos, hairdressers threaten them.
A few months ago, I went to a hairdresser’s and was treated like royalty. Before I’d even sat down, I was offered a drink - coffee, sparkling water,...
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Allow Me To Be Blunt
What are you scared of?” He haunted me. Not just in touch but in thoughts lingering in areas that should ’ ve been off limits, introducing pleasures...
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Some Things We’ll Never Own
Some Things We’ll Never Own By Paul McCann So who owns the rivers and who owns the seas . Who sells the flowers and the fruit in the trees . Who owns...
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Sandman
The night is fresh, and the body rots.
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Tears in rain
The sound of the sea Echos full of memories Listen and you can still hear them The bandwidth is just out of reach No need for a radio Just put the...
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Low
My husband thinks he’s making an effort. He brings over a whisky and soda, placing the tumbler on a coaster on the coffee table.
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Welsh Lessons-4
Ger yanked the pull cord on Seren y Môr ’s outboard once more. This time, the engine coughed into life, rattly at first but then with a deepening...
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A Grimm Tale
There once was a rich man who had two sons, one of whom was extremely handsome, but feckless and lazy, and the other plain of countenance, but clever...
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“If you find honey eat just enough –
– too much of it and you will vomit.” [Proverbs 25:16] Escaping into …
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Watching You, Chapters Twenty-Nine and Thirty
Chapter Twenty-Nine ‘ Listen to me. I’m an active police officer … you are in extreme danger. Please listen to me.’ On the top floor of the multi-...
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Letter From Estero
A letter from Estero It is the 29 th of September here in Estero Florida. The last two weeks, the mornings have been glorious. We sit outside the...
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Enhance The Life You Live
Enhance The Life You Live By Paul McCann Those who interfere with the livelihood of others will never prosper and those who criticise the good works...
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Welsh Lessons-3
It was five o’clock, after school. They were walking back from International Stores to Rhos-y-Bryn Road; Janice swung her mum’s green and red nylon...
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Welsh Lessons-2
“NICK! The bus goes in TWO MINUTES! We’ve got to get down there now!” “NAH. We’ve got loads of time. It always leaves ten minutes late.” “You sure...
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Welsh Lessons-1
WELSH LESSONS April 1975, on the waste ground where the old abattoir used to be “S’mae?” “Sorry, don’t speak Welsh.” “Just means ‘How’s things? We...
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Sharing (Episode 27 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
Gwladys and Aefelthrith are sharing a bed, again, and other things too!
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Borderline
I live on fault lines. Every step is an earthquake, every breath a landslide. I do not walk through the world I tremble through it. Borderline. That’...
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About to go 'pop'
A plague of wild hooded brutes. A feckless mob in cahoots. Skull faces and tired boots. Ignored too long, by grey suits.
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Trump reads Hansel and Gretel
So there were these two kids, Hansel and Gretel - great kids, really terrific kids. Everybody said so. And they had a father, who was, you know, weak...
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The Moral Compass in a Post-Truth World
Fairy tales may be for children, but the lessons they teach echo in doctors’ wards and flotillas alike. From the earliest age, children encounter...
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