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A Welcome Visit
Lucy and her new family are welcomed back to a childhood haunt.
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Dear Dad 4*
Dear Dad 4* I’m wondering what you would have thought of the present world difficulties. We were born just after the second world war finished, and...
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Excerpt from Eagles Hunt Wolves: An appointment in Seville
1946 Seville, Spain Thousands of brightly lit paper lanterns adorned the tent city beneath the swaying shade of cooling stretched canvas. The colours...
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A Geordie Hero on Distant Shore
A Geordie Hero on Distant Shore Gan canny Colly lad Bony’s boys await Horatio a dying hero Up to you to seal their fate As Hardy hugged his Lord Game...
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-ingly (a tonal drawing written in poetic form)
*-ingly (on into one another) you are here with me long before you come and I am holding onto you so close the warm moisture of your breath is gently...
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My Place Or Yours
. My Place Or Yours By Paul McCann . A place where we can feel . A place where we can heal . A place where we can see . A place where we are free . A...
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They Piled Up At The Whitehouse Wall
. They Piled Up At The Whitehouse Wall Paul McCann . There’s a cruel rank and file during this present time About who was elected and who actually...
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Christmas In Cork
, Christmas In Cork By Paul McCann It was Christmas night in Cork and snow turned into sleet . A crowd all walked together along Great Patrick Street...
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Mouth Rape and Alien Fashion Choices 3
When I finally met the dentist, or the one who was going to pull my tooth, I have to say that my initial reaction was not of him being highly...
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Mouth Rape and Alien Fashion Choices 2
It was only about twenty minutes between the last Alien message I had sent to the group, and the next: What kind of asshole majors in xenomorphology...
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Mouth Rape and Alien Fashion Choices 1
Mouth Rape and Alien Fashion Choices I was in a Didi (One of several versions of Chinese Uber) on my way to the dentist. I absolutely hate getting...
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Stephen O’Donnell 1959—1995 [1]
I was living in the studio flat on Castle Street, when I heard the knock on the door. My eldest sister, Josephine, or Jo as we called her, was...
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Hiroshima, Mon Amour
My eyes watch the buildings block you, Your scent dissolving, drowned in fumes. Your steps fade, the traffic hisses Higher: the cold freezes your...
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Maneg Ikor
Maneg Ikor used the same notebook for everything he wrote. His novel, obviously, was hand-scrawled in the stiff-bound books, along with his poetry...
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Part 2: Changing at Nuremberg
Sulking and snorting like a great animal, a massive train stood waiting for us in the darkness.
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning-Chapter Fourteen: Resolution - Part Two
Back in her room she sat on the edge of her bed. She went back over the conversation in her head. He’d seemed a little surprised at the news but she...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning-Chapter Fourteen: Resolution - Part One
The calm atmosphere continued into the next morning. Elena did her best to engage them but Felix and Katie were quieter, more well-behaved, less...
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Mute Witness
The first time I met him I'd never heard of muteness. I knew not that such people existed. I was crossing the churchyard when this man sprang out...
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Ankle Warmers
A poem to my oldest sister recently passed.
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Being There
And to be honest, I can’t even remember her name. She was Spanish, that’s for sure. From the islands, or was it Seville? So anyway, I met her at a...
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