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Chapter 5: Into the Blue
Mumbai was unlike any place I’d ever seen - teeming with life, a cacophony of sounds, smells, and colours that hit you the moment you stepped off the...
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Chapter 4: The Long Wait
The days after meeting Slade stretched out like a lethargic cat, sluggish and uncertain. Time seemed to slow, giving me more space to think, to doubt...
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Chapter 3: Why now?
Why now, at sixty, when most men are settling into the twilight of their lives, am I consumed by the urge to obliterate my current self? I’ve asked...
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Yesterday............
On my way to my cousin’s house to get my Mum, who has spent the day there. Three things happened, that I didn’t expect to happen. The first thing...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 15
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 15 The Christmas Child He was not and will never be the kind of man you meet every day, His life has...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 14
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 14 The Nuclear Winter He looked out the window at the surrounding hills and the shadows waited for the...
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The Storyteller -Chapter 13
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 13 The Hidden Ones It was the twilight of a summers evening and he sat in a treehouse that was built...
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The Tiger
You should realise the difference between how someone is addressed and what you call him. For example you might speak of someone as “Mr Brown” but...
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Gardens
IP. I don't do these often, you can see why. Image author's own, garden not.
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A hundred moments in autism - Maths
Autists get into trouble. We don’t mean to, but we can be too honest, too abrupt, say the wrong thing, or, all too often for no reason whatever. From...
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Chapter 2: Slade
The next round of interviews tested my patience. Five more candidates, five more failures. A programmer who talked too much, a drifter who barely...
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Chapter 1: The Skeleton Crew
The idea of locating the Leviathan on my own had started out as a thrilling challenge, but reality has a way of sobering even the most stubborn...
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Prologue: The Ultimate Deception
There’s a certain allure to vanishing completely - the idea of stepping out of your life and reemerging as someone untraceable, free. As I sat in the...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 12
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 12 The Time Travellers He awoke with the sound of birds chirping outside the window of the cottage...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 11
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 11 The Songbird He was sitting by the lagoon and the afternoon was fading into a long twilight of the...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 10
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 10 The Troubled Soul He sat by the crystal pools at Greengate watching water cascading down from the...
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The Burgh
Like some other Scottish places, this town abides, if not dilapidated, then resting like a lean to on its past. The sadness is in shadows that never...
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Probably Knot
When something is less likely, there lies spectacle. When there’s a wave of hype, I just lean skeptical. Then, when you look for certainty, that’s...
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Musings Among Flowering Bushes
I talk to the trees
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August 1914
The events of August 1914 predertimined most of the following history, that is still being played out today. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).
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