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Bron-17

Picture: Peter Thwaite Continued from Chapter 16: Bron-16 | ABCtales “You be OK?” said the Australian woman in the Notting Hill Secondhand Exchange...
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Picnic In A Storm
Picnic In A Storm By Paul McCann There were people on the rocks eating chips inside a box as seagulls came for a free lunch in many hungry flocks ...
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The Singer Who Found Her Voice
The Singer Who Found Her Voice by Paul McCann Cecilia was born at the break of day in the delivery room of a busy maternity ward at the old city...
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The Dust That Fell In Silence
The Dust That Fell In Silence By Paul McCann Silence your critics with actions not an excuse and bring an end to all their poisonous abuse . Give...
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Bruiser

Bruiser is my new Chihuahua's name and I will never ignore him. Unlike the other Chihuahuas I've owned, I paid nothing for him. After his former...
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Signal Failure

He holds the door for her without comment. She presses the lift button for both of them. He steps aside on the pavement so she can walk on the inside. She slows her pace when he falls half a step behind.
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Raven Black

The first stanza came from a dream, then I left it until I thought to finish it as a piece of whimsy. The image is courtesy of David George Williams fro Wikemedia Commons
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Collage of a Broken Year
Moments. A year is comprised of thirty-one million, five hundred and fifty-seven thousand seconds; most of them pass without a second’s thought. They...
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Spring soon? (Haiku)
Late February, Snowdrops and crocuses, Spring is not far away.
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A Creation Mine Own
Through flames mine own, my mettle tempered; quenched by those unknowingly absent. Transformed but not remade. Hel is, indeed, a place on Earth...
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A Recipe for Life

Into a pot place a modicum of strife With a splash of dry wit, reflective of life; Then a sprinkle of caution, just to be sure That humour and...
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Last Week's Oranges

In our local book club last week, we had a quiz, to kick things off. The book club theme was Oranges, so the quiz had 9 purported titles. You had to mark the ones you thought were real books, who wrote them, if you marked them as books. Others were films, LP- I mean albums, or other cultural things. One was a red herring. (Should have been orange, eh?) Last Week's Oranges. Now, that answer is a real one. [Image source Wikipedia Commons placed in the public domain by Downtowngal ]
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AI and I

Image from Wikipedia - Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Author: https://www.vpnsrus.com/
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Inspiration point ( IP )
Inspiration point (IP) Recipe… …behind screens, soft light, handing over to night shift caring and sharing TLC agreed tender loving care administered…
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Moment

Everything happens at once, or seems to.
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Concoction of Certainty
Drink in the moment; take time to pause. For better or for worse, at least you know now. It shouldn’t have taken this long to get sorted but it did...
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Scorched by Another's Flame
I’ve come close; I’ve danced in the flames of another; a hel mine own, I remain to see. Hel is a place on Earth. Heaven may exist there too but you’...
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Purple Mountain - Part 1
‘We can’t walk there, it’s not safe.’ ‘Why, it looks uneven in places but surely we can give it a go, we’re wearing sturdy enough shoes.’ Arty...
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The Boy Who Walked On His Hands

The Boy Who Walked On His Hands By Paul McCann Boris lived in a small village 10 miles away from the city and once a month he went with his father to...
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Who needs Jesus Christ?

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Unless we feel our need, and squirm, we’ll not desire of Christ to learn … How often have you wished you’d not …
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