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The Tiger
You should realise the difference between how someone is addressed and what you call him. For example you might speak of someone as “Mr Brown” but...
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Gardens
IP. I don't do these often, you can see why. Image author's own, garden not.
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A hundred moments in autism - Maths
Autists get into trouble. We don’t mean to, but we can be too honest, too abrupt, say the wrong thing, or, all too often for no reason whatever. From...
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Chapter 2: Slade
The next round of interviews tested my patience. Five more candidates, five more failures. A programmer who talked too much, a drifter who barely...
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Chapter 1: The Skeleton Crew
The idea of locating the Leviathan on my own had started out as a thrilling challenge, but reality has a way of sobering even the most stubborn...
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Prologue: The Ultimate Deception
There’s a certain allure to vanishing completely - the idea of stepping out of your life and reemerging as someone untraceable, free. As I sat in the...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 12
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 12 The Time Travellers He awoke with the sound of birds chirping outside the window of the cottage...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 11
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 11 The Songbird He was sitting by the lagoon and the afternoon was fading into a long twilight of the...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 10
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 10 The Troubled Soul He sat by the crystal pools at Greengate watching water cascading down from the...
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The Burgh
Like some other Scottish places, this town abides, if not dilapidated, then resting like a lean to on its past. The sadness is in shadows that never...
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Probably Knot
When something is less likely, there lies spectacle. When there’s a wave of hype, I just lean skeptical. Then, when you look for certainty, that’s...
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Musings Among Flowering Bushes
I talk to the trees
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August 1914
The events of August 1914 predertimined most of the following history, that is still being played out today. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).
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Playful Elven Folk
Precious homeland of leafy green, leave emotions in darkest night, while bright eyed foxes play by moonlight and only the boldest would venture,...
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Beg, I, your pardon
Beg, I, your pardon Time did grant on Leigh hunt poet the great with adorations in spate for his appeal, emotional to make his youth eternal despite...
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence Oblong gets mistaken for the Messiah
In my first week at university I am standing in a bar at a student night when two young men I’ve never met before walk up to me, prostrate themselves...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 9
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 9 The Lost Dragon He had been walking through the Mystical Woods looking for a sign . He had a melody...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 8
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 8 The Lighthouse Keepers A gale force nine had arrived like a monster , wreaking havoc wherever it...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 7
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 7 The Fourth Dimension It was a warm summer’s night and all around Heroes Bay was the sound of waves...
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2084-G
Michael Smith sat in the office of the private psychiatrist his friend had recommended him. "Can you bring people off the police tranquillisers? I...
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