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78 Months
He was my cousin and friend and his death was a damn shame. But he decided to do drugs and he only had himself to blame. 78 months ago today, he drew...
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Awkward
Pain. Years forced their way into Lore’s head as they tried to push the scene they had just witnessed into the darkest recesses of their mind. The...
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The Tobacco Barn (Part 2)
The cold hit him like a fist. Clay made it twenty steps from the barn before his hip seized, the pain so sudden and total that he dropped to his...
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"Winter Constitutional"
Ghostly breaths of brumal dew Icy mist of petrichor Barren branches sway and shiver Loosening spikes of icicles To stab the frozen earth Subnivean...
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Dusk and wine.
Late this afternoon, as dusk was starting to gather, I took myself out into the back garden with a bottle of red Lebanese wine. A mild winter...
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Crooning On Corners In Cork
Crooning On Corners In Cork By Paul McCann After arriving in Cork I asked one of the locals about accommodation in town and he gave me the address of...
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Elevate Joy
Elevate Joy. Let’s increase our happiness? With an abundance of joy. That activates you midstream, your aspect of time. And beyond emotion. This joy...
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Beats of the Spirit World
Beats of the Spirit World Drums of the earth throb through The seven sacred directions. In time. Of the Chiefs. When tribes dance, the. Powwow dance...
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The Way of Stillness
The Way of Stillness Where morning hides, and the river knows, no hurry. This shape unfolds in silence into the wind’s shelter. A pause from the...
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The Tobacco Barn (Part 1)
The barn was older than the farmhouse. Older than the county records, if you believed the clerk at the Register of Deeds, who'd searched back to 1847...
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The Quality Circle (Part 2)
Wade found her in the parking lot after second shift, leaning against her driver's side door like he belonged there. The security lights made his...
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The Quality Circle (Part 1)
The rating terminals glowed in the break room like confession booths, blue-white screens waiting for judgment. Marlene Vickers had passed them a...
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Merry Christmas, Mom - Part XIII
After living for sixty-four years, you had to depart. You were a terrific mother who had a huge heart. You were one of the world's greatest mothers...
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Growing
Vanishing. The room again disappeared around them. Lore was beginning to understand Catherine’s disorientation warning; the cube, so far, had been an...
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CEPHALALGIA.
In covid time, if a person had, a sore throat, fever, aching bones, sneezing, coughing, runny nose, or eyes, wheezing it was clear before the covid...
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Advent Promise
Advent Promise A long the halls of time D eclaring hope for all mankind V ision after vision sending hope E ach prophecy following on N ew hope...
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Shadow's Echo.
Shadows lost in faint fades and a distant dull thump of something that was never there, right in front in the moment of now. A sea of shining black...
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Mission Creep
Oh, please, not yet. It’s November, for goodness sake. I've got dahlias in flower, the squirrels are burying conkers on my lawn, and the thin duvet’s...
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November Blues
November Blues It was ‘Black Friday’ last week and although a sales event it clashed with Christmas, which starts commercially as early as the summer...
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