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Ridgeline - Part Eleven: Arithmetic
At some point the rain started. She couldn't remember when. The sky opened and the water came through the canopy in sheets and she pulled Bree closer...
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Ridgeline - Part Ten: Forward Anyway
A scent on the trail. New. The nose drops to the gravel and the compound assembles — human, male, the sweat-salt of a body that has been walking for...
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Snakebite
Bitten by a cobra, the woman collapses. A man sinks his determined mouth on the wound. His panicked, sunburned face sucking and spitting venom. Naked...
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Walking the Timeline
The path is less so a trail of cobbles than a rope between points vague and moving. Exiled from the beginning, only the endpoint carries hope yet...
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The Road We Walked Alone
I walked behind you, alone on the road, following in your footsteps; my feet fit perfectly. Looking ahead, the road it winds, its path unpredictable...
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"Raindance" (Reprise)
Dave and Tems: 12th to 18th February 2026 (Part 5 of 9)
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Offspring of The Savanna
My identity is engraved beneath the course soil of land fought for by my nameless forefathers I relish upon the fruits of their labor, well aware of...
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Where Do I Find Justice
Where Do I Find Justice By Paul McCann Sitting in a great big room where I’ve never been , I’m the invisible man , that no one has seen . Legal...
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Bo Bo’s Working Bee
Bo Bo’s Working Bee By Paul McCann In the back entries around the town some of the rubbish bins had not been collected due to the shortage of...
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Fix Your Crown King
Though the legend is bold that women ought to be loved and pampered like gold, who will feed the souls of the brethren that are anorexic on self-love...
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My Husband's Son
He holds his father’s restored innocence that hibernated from years of masculine duty and societal expectation. He will teach his son the discipline...
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The Return of Rainbows
Looking back through my poetry written in 2000: 'The Return of Rainbows’ was conceived at University as a mature-age student bloodied by life’s...
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Picking a fight with the Pope
There are a few things in the patois of the Political arena that are absolute gospel. “Keep your mouth shut and your ears open” in one prime...
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Ridgeline - Part Nine: Still
Cold. The ground against the flank. The gravel's edges pressing into the open wound where the claws cut. The cold coming up from the stone, through...
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Penny's Pass the Story - Part 10
Jenny Padget grabbed her handbag and car keys, ‘Oliver, they’ll be coming for us next, we need to get the hell out of here, now!’ Hyperventilating...
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Mytten Dingle, north Stiperstones
Shropshire7 April Looming sides, but wide enough to let the sunny warm day in. peaceful. At the end a memorial plaque to five wartime airmen who died...
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April Weather Haiku
Mist, grey skies, drizzle- April showers today! No daisies scattered!
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"Aperture"
Harry Styles: 5th to 11th February 2026 (Part 4 of 9)
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