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The bench at the top of the hill

On a clear day you can just about make out the city clawing at the sky. A red light flashing, like a distant warning. Apart from that the...

2. Small Town Sunday Walking Blues...

Down three flights, past doors through which I could hear TVs, music, shouting - the predictable backing track of domestic life. It seemed like all...

1. A Sunday Kind of Loving...

I'm rehashing something that I first started posting on ABC when I joined 20 years ago. I had no idea what to do with it then, but have a better idea...

A dweller on the threshold

Miranda worked as a receptionist at a nearby private psychiatric hospital, she worked night-shift, one week on, one week off. The first private...

02 - The Speakwrite (2)

Chapter 2: The Speakwrite (Cont.) The next day, Tillotson's desk was empty. Arthur noticed it when he arrived at the Records Department---the cubicle...

02 - The Speakwrite (1)

Chapter 2: The Speakwrite The speed regulator dial had been loose for three months. Arthur had learned to work around it---a gentle pressure with his...

Authors Summary - Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead A Novel By Paul McCann Authors Summary After hearing so many stories about ghosts and paranormal activity I admit here is a lot of...

Chapter 14 _ Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 14 Here And After As he opened his eyes, he was looking down at himself there on a hospital bed...

Chapter 13 - Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 13 The Intruders Todd first noticed the others, one day in a crowded restaurant . He somehow had...
Cherry

My Favourite Music

iTunes player says I have 38 days of music, back to back. I have a lot more than that, loads of tracks for DJing on a one terabyte external hard disk...
Cherry

The Cat Krampus Campus (And Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing) Part 2

It tasted so good that it cancelled out all his senses, except for taste and smell. His sight, his hearing and his common sense all drifted into...
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Cherry

another cold day...

sunlight, cold and bright and a crisp stab of frost On the skin lacey ice dusts the grass crawls through spider web to leaf and branch and wilted...
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ballad of the march of the muse

her footprints glow her shadow falls on deserted plains and moonlit valleys she climbs the silver spiral stairway to crystalline skies to pristine...
Cherry

The Quest to Find the Sarashka Mosque

Oh what a month! Early December back in ’25. My experiences of it described at the going rate of one hundred words per day.
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Chapter 12 - Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 12 A Night On The Dump Hills People used to live on the Bone as it was called, in a place called...

Chapter 11 - Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 11 Cargo Of Souls The ship pulled In To Belfast Lough on a quiet evening when the shops had all...

Chapter 10 - Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 10 The Day Evil Left Town In an old timber shack, by the railway track, in town of Beevile, lived...
Cherry

The Baron Von Ernest and the perfectly normal ducks

Leaving the Gloden Mines the baron’s entourage travelled west. The baron had announced that we were off to visit perfectly normal ducks, but though...
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Swept Under: Chapter 2: (looking for feedback)

“I was late home today, y‘know.” “Realy? Why was that?” “Some boys almost died at the beach.” The dinner table fell silent for a moment. “What...

Swept Under: Chapter 1: draft (looking for feedback)

Maxis, with the rest of the class, watched from the shore. He saw the lifeguard jump in as soon as Cameron and Trevor's heads were spotted bobbing...

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