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Ghostly Stories Of Ardoyne

Ghostly Stories Of Ardoyne By Paul Mc Cann There is the story of Galloper Thompson who lost his head on a mill guillotine , but there are so many...

Slices Of Life. Julie Foot. Part One

Many years ago, my manager, said to me, “Ring the local chiropodist, and ask him to come and cut everyone’s toe nails.” I rang him and he replied, “...
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I am "That Guy".

For the past few months, I’ve been working with the most professional cleaning crew I’ve ever seen. I didn’t know such a group existed. I appreciate...
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A Son at Gretl's Bedside

No, it's not about a fairy tale. Image made at Canva.com using PD elements.
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A Bookshop in Aberystwyth

It was in my drinking days, hungover at the seaside, Butty Bach after Butty Bach, bringing up all my usual drunken topics, people on their phones in...
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Le Merle Noir

In ‘Bird by Bird’, Anne Lamott mentions someone called Wallace Stevens. I had to Google in order to get the joke. He was a poet who worked in...

Lambs At The Slaughterhouse Door

Lambs At The Slaughterhouse Door By Paul McCann There in the hands of the butchers knives where the lambs at the slaughter house door , there by the...

The Angels Of Ardoyne

The Angels Of Ardoyne By Paul McCann The angels in around Ardoyne they gracefully fly Looking down at the streets from an overcast sky . They come...

The Great Escape With Gerry And Me

The Great Escape With Gerry And Me By Paul McCann I remember the day colour TV came . and Gerrys Aunt had one We thought it might be a good idea to...
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A Trip through Old Florida

Babcock Ranch Excursion We set out from Estero at 10:30 A.M. and followed Rte. # 75 north. We exited onto Bayshore Rd., following it east to Rte. #31...

The Graveyard

A fictional story of love and acceptance!

Cancelled Comics?

We never would have got the joke If childrens’ comics had been ‘woked’ Back in our rose-tinted childhood days When being old was far away. Dennis was...
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Lookit!

At fifteen, I saw, far away, through the lens of naivety, what I believed was a pair of stars. A discovery that would make me the toast of the...
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Capricious Satnav

We set out our route on the satnav to travel home next day from north-coast Pembrokeshire, an easterly wriggly way. Next morning as we drove along...
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage

Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.
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The Nature of Feelings

The grass was still glistening with dew in the walled garden. I was early. It’s a Boomer thing. Plus, you must allow for stuck-behind-a-tractor...
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Informed Rituals

I should have known from the psychedelic colours in the gorse that a migraine was coming. I haven’t had a migraine in years, so didn’t twig. I...

Knowing One Supernatural

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] His Being is transcendent, different, far above (in purity, perception, glory, skill and love) those he had … indescribable, in grace approachable …

Mother's Day 2024

Today is Mother's Day of 2024. But you died and you can't celebrate Mother's Day anymore. You were a wonderful mother and I'm your youngest son. You...

The Mushroom.

This morning a friend took me to The Harvester for breakfast. I don’t go very often the last time I went to one, was last year for my birthday, my...

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