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Jenny’s Path To The Waterfall

Jenny’s Path To The Waterfall By Paul McCann One morning after Jenny woke up and had breakfast, she was in the garden playing on her bike when she...
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2084-B

Chris made his way to Room 101. A man in his 50s sat behind a desk wearing a suit and a pair of distinctive red wire round glasses. Few people wore...
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Waterfall

Dear diary...wouldn't it be good to turn back time, to smile across rousing energy gushing unleashed freshness with sense of exhilarating abandonment...
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To Be a Child Again

When did we lose the joy in insignificance? Things so microscopic Were once mind blowing An expansion of our inner universe and wider perception Same...

Invisible War

An invisible war I’m constantly fighting Incessantly And never ending A warped version of myself in my head The part of me that’s sick Has always...
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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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Story of the week

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 drifts through ribbons of time to the spaces where your breath becomes my hesitant smile in the sentences we spoke where vowels and consonants...

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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Poem of the week

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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