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La Tomatino versus The Terminator
In less complicated times a typical robot was made of tin, stood about twenty cms high, trundled back and forth on squeaky little wheels, swivelled...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 18
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 18 The Lake Dweller The storyteller never had a map but his instincts told him which way he had to go...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 17
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 17 The Wolf Of Cushean The storyteller was on his way to the Fiddlers Well where he had promised...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 16
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 16 The Wishing Well One summer night as he was on the road to Castle Hill, he was singing a song to...
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A hundred moments in autism - The Topless photo of Germaine Greer
Every few days I look at a topless photo of Germaine Greer. It is a common trait among autists to return to a favourite piece of music over and over...
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Leviathan
Leviathan I had been scrolling for what seemed like hours. Each post scanned seemed darker than the last. Reading wall-to-wall invective wasn’t good...
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A garden is …
… a haven, unconfined, giving rest of mind: beauty and utility, flowers or veg, cultivated or wild, fence or hedge – and for a child a place for...
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A Year with the Brighouse Stars Walking Club (December)
December So Gordon then. Back in the day – the very early days of the walking club – the lads called him Galloping Gordon. He was something of a...
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Chapter 5: Into the Blue
Mumbai was unlike any place I’d ever seen - teeming with life, a cacophony of sounds, smells, and colours that hit you the moment you stepped off the...
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Chapter 4: The Long Wait
The days after meeting Slade stretched out like a lethargic cat, sluggish and uncertain. Time seemed to slow, giving me more space to think, to doubt...
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Chapter 3: Why now?
Why now, at sixty, when most men are settling into the twilight of their lives, am I consumed by the urge to obliterate my current self? I’ve asked...
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Yesterday............
On my way to my cousin’s house to get my Mum, who has spent the day there. Three things happened, that I didn’t expect to happen. The first thing...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 15
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 15 The Christmas Child He was not and will never be the kind of man you meet every day, His life has...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 14
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 14 The Nuclear Winter He looked out the window at the surrounding hills and the shadows waited for the...
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The Storyteller -Chapter 13
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 13 The Hidden Ones It was the twilight of a summers evening and he sat in a treehouse that was built...
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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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