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Time-out Spot
“Halfway up the slope is a spot where I stop. It isn’t at the bottom, it isn’t at the top. It isn’t in the town, nor yet up on the hill, but this is...
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The Shampoo Haiku
In order to save the planet, certain shampoo manufacturers have started packaging in hard bottles. I don’t know the composition exactly, half bamboo...
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Christmas In Fairyland
Christmas In Fairyland By Paul McCann It was Christmas Eve in Fairyland with snow cakes on the streets . Crowds of elves and fairies collected up all...
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage
Eat your words but don't go hungry. Words can make you grow rotundly.
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Jenny And The Dickybird
Jenny And The Dickybird By Paul McCann Jenny was returning home from her friend’s birthday party and saw a balloon tied to a letter box with her name...
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love
love drifts through ribbons of time to the spaces where your breath becomes my hesitant smile in the sentences we spoke where vowels and consonants...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Graveyard
A fictional story of love and acceptance!
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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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