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DNA. Dance of the Gene pools.

DNA- Dance of the gene pool. Who are you? My wife Mary had purchased me one of those DNA kits as a birthday present. I dutifully expectorated into...

Its Great To Be Irish

It’s Great To be Irish By Paul McCann and Ted Rooney It’s great to be Irish sitting in the bar , drinking pints of Guinness from a big glass jar ...

Colours for Kids 8)

Grey school trousers, skirts and socks, grey rain clouds, and seaside rocks, grey knives and forks, and grandad’s hair, roads and pavements...
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Fundraising Parties and Other Family Minefields.

Ryan stood at the back of the pub, trying to hide himself away at the end of the horseshoe-shaped bar, and knew he shouldn’t have come here. The...

Woes to happiness

Woes to happiness P K Routray Amidst fear, confusion and grief madly, the man searches for relief in his run for materialistic happiness yielding...

Life and Times of a Priestess: Ch.12: Mireau (Section 1)

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The General cannot take Danella to the ballet because he is working, so his friend Mireau takes her. She enjoys his companionship. Set in an alternative world which reflects our own in the past.

Voting Day.

So today is voting day, but I won’t be voting. I know that every vote count, and all that malarkey, I just won’t be voting. My Husband Paul, he never...

Kittens

When it became obvious – when Zelda’s belly grew big and distended and faintly ridiculous – Karla and I tried to guess which of the neighbourhood...
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The Trophy Wall

No elephant in the room. ( 250 words flash fiction)
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Afternoon Delight

Tuesdays after school: because that was when Bethany had just gotten paid. We’d run out the school gate and down the road, bags flying, with Bethany’...

COLOUR ME PERFECT

Colour Me Perfect Colour me violet Keep my world in inviolate Colour me lilac Keep my spirit bright Colour me red For you, sons and daughters, I will...

Christmas 1959

Memories of Christmas 1959 Thinking back over the years to nineteen fifty nine; and how that last Sunday before Christmas had been quite mild. Yes; I...

Another Day Goes By

Alfie turned his key in the lock and then pushed the front door open. He was greeted by a dark and empty hallway, none of the lights had been turned...
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I Searched Everywhere

Trying to remember the good times; failing and then a scent transports me...
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Lines

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Gunslingers

You'll work it out... Image is from Open Clipart Library

Surrender

Surrender P K Routray With bowed head and bent knee surrenders a vanquished enemy to the king the victor trembling for any frenzied order.. This...

The Booth: Part 1

I sit at the booth in the small café waiting to meet my biological father for the first time since I was eight years old. He must have decided I...

Thank you God For The Sunrise

Thank You God For The Sunrise - By Paul McCann'. . I woke up this morning and thoughts streamed through my head like a prisoner that was just...

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