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The Night Cafe

The Night Cafe By Paul McCann The clock on the dashboard said a quarter to six . I pulled up outside the café and took my notepad and pen and went in...
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Parents United
Parents United By Paul McCann After Peirre and Sally were married, they were happy enough as husband and wife. They both had their careers and...
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The Editor
The Editor You will haiku the fauna of Haworth. Burn Tehran ballads for those who can’t breathe. Delete a sonnet of limbs rotting in Gaza. Cherish...
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Enzyme

An enzyme* is a complicated protein – long chains of atoms in patterns twisted into shape to help some other molecules unite, combine when needed in the cell’s constant city-like activity. … likened to a molecular computer!
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When Time Has Elapsed

Dear diary... Now sitting quietly in my garden shed, surrounded by implements once used for flower beds; remembering how we lived the dream, that...
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Xion Island Zero: Chapter 28

The wind sweeping through the cemetery was uncommitted, the kind that rustled hems and ribbons but didn’t disturb the dead. Even the weather managed...
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In The Land Where Music Flows
In The Land Where Music Flows By Paul McCann’ Cusheen found it difficult to sleep and her crying was keeping the new born awake who was in the same...
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Equal.

I remember when I was at school, many moons ago. There were SO many things that were not equal! It was the norm, it was to be expected, sometimes it...
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Just now
Just now just now you take me you love me just now time move along like a sailing ship on the ocean so peaceful and calm just love just now and the...
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Just now
Just now just now you take me you love me just now time move along like a sailing ship on the ocean so peaceful and calm just love just now and the...
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Booty Ain't What It Used to Be

I wrote a pirate sea shanty lyrics (with an Irish vibe first) last week. A gag on modern piracy compared to how it was in the old days It soon became...
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Dead Man: 5

And so there John found himself, in this peculiar kind of limbo. Of all the possibilities there could be after death, this was the one that he had...
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The Glass Floor
Some readers may have seen my speculation piece on the 'glass ceiling' of human endeavour. This pointed out the apparent inability of humankind to...
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Internet Service Pretender

I find it fascinating how incredibly pissed off I can get over a tiny, little thing like my internet connection not working properly. I'm usually a...
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Watching You Chapters Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Three Black had seized his chance. Reilly had been careless; the hand in which he held the Smith and Wesson was extended invitingly...
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Father's Day.

Today is Father’s Day. How can this Special day be summed up. I saw a video yesterday, I showed it to my husband later and it made him cry. To me,...
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Clue (Episode 13 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))

In which 'Arry is interrogated and a familiar name crops up!
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Needed – Dads!

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] O, where have all the fathers gone? Unvalued? pushed? abusive? some maybe just have felt unneeded, strayed, And some may wish that they had stayed. But if … and complementary Mum and Dad both benefit the lass and lad. …
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Mother Of Fathers
Mother Of Fathers by Paul McCann Mother of fathers Keep in your heart those fathers who have been separated from their children . Mother of fathers...
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Father's Day 2025

If you hadn't held down a job, we would've been screwed. If you hadn't worked, we would've had no shelter or food. You worked hard for years to keep...
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