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Empty Highway Home
The road is clear, but for the weather lashing down liquid intermittently, wipers doing overtime at midnight, after a John Mayall gig in Stoke,...
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The ‘roughpotatofallacy’ Fallacy (RPF3)
Nobody knew the meaning of the ‘roughpotatofallacy.’ Or indeed the ‘fallacy’ of the ‘roughpotato.’ There were those who spent long minutes, seconds...
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Monroe (4)
Terry Walters was ambitious. A Detective Constable at thirty-four with his sights set firmly on being a DCI by the time he was forty. That was now...
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You ask about loss
Another stab at an old theme
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twelve-noon-three
‘You mind if I smoke?’ Paddy rested his back against the headboard. He’d woken early, hadn’t really slept, had thought of sneaking away, but then...
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An Unholy Redemption Chapter 17.1 continued
Samson was frantically pacing the length of his cage and roaring, then all of a sudden Lucifer felt that all too familiar feeling coming from his...
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An Unholy Redemption Chapter 17
Chapter Seventeen Lucifer paced back and forth at the zoo’s entrance as he watched David talking to his friend from the brotherhood. Security guards...
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The Honour Guard
The honour guard are glass eyed on parade, waiting for inspection and the day for which they've trained. Double ranks in waiting for the chief of the...
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Just following orders... (3)
Third part of my true story of a bad time in my life. My neighbour, Carl, has been found dead. The landlord has been arrested. We've just been informed we could lose our homes.
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Thimbles
It's not really about thimbles, I have a lisp. You could use three and a pea for the shell game. Does anyone use them now? Image source pixel.com
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The King Problem
I was woken early one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs, where I found Alun in an agitated state. "It's...
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Promises Beyond The Veil Of Light ( PT 50 )
Picture by pixabay free images. Part Fifty We move on five years. Mina is nearly eighteen and living her dream. It was the Spring of 1999 in...
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On Platform Two of Basingstoke Station One Night in October
Trains, on a Saturday night. They thunder in. Pause for a while. They thunder out. They carry the lost and the loveless. Through the black dark to a...
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Just following orders... (2)
Continuing my true horror story of a bad episode in my life...
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Oakey Doakey Karaoke
Oakey Doakey Karaoke By Paul McCann Karaoke time at Twilight , a place for everyone , singing in the good times , bringing so much fun , there’s many...
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Unison
Very very short and music inspired.
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Journeying through life
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] [on Psalm 121] On the hills around the road enemies can hide, mockers pounce to scorn or goad – God is at my side. Help for ever from the Lord, Maker of the earth …
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The song of the giant’s daughter.
Promise me, never to let the children forget the songs of Finn and the Fiánna.
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Monroe (3)
Mark Latham arrived at St Leonards primary school at 10.55. He walked up to a small reception area and waited for a petite middle-aged woman to stop...
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