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Building C - Part Two
On a Friday, six weeks in, Coy was pulling from aisle eight when his scanner died. Battery. He walked to the charging station at the dock, swapped it...
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Building C - Part One
Coy Shumate clocked in at 10:47 PM on a Tuesday in March. Thirteen minutes early because the bus ran ahead of schedule and the break room had coffee...
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The Fat Ones
An excerpt from my (stalled) novel-in-progress The Tallow Man — told entirely from the perspective of a herd of wild Andean guinea pigs ( Cavia...
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Easter 2026 (Part 3: The Fall Of the Roman Empire (sorry American/Western Empire!) by Alfred N.Muggins
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5/4/26 Alfred had spent the last few Easters getting more and more concerned about the problems assailing the sane, responsible, normal, peaceful,...
Life on Berth
Johnny the bottlenose dolphin nudged his friend, Cider with his smooth snout, ‘Watch out now, the monster is starting up her engines.’ ‘Oh no,...
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Way Down: September–October 1977
The heat had broken by the first week of September, leaving the air heavy and uncertain. The long drought of ’76 was a distant memory now, supplanted...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 8 real one!
Chapter 8. Spectacle makers call. Amanderella had barely finished writing Algersome is for someone else when the doorbell rang again. Mrs Gaffletter...
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Platypus
A tale of how nature's strangest creature was made from leftovers.
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Good Intentions. Amanderella did not start with “Where is Burkoland?” That would have been far too obvious, and far too dependent on other...
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Car Slaves
Sitting in the middle of the recent Hari Raya traffic jam, I remember an old cartoon showing a Martian peering into a telescope directed at Earth. He...
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Wembley Praise Day
The seven men had walked down to Wembley Stadium and were standing outside. They had parked their seven seater Vauxhall car half a mile away. One of...
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The Way We Were: Another Brick in the Wall, December 1979
Mr Evans hated me. Mr Evans was the D eputy H eadmaster, but also our M aths teacher, and much to his dismay I was the best at maths in my year,...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 8
Chapter 9. So where is the Bangolin tree? Amanderella tapped her notebook with her sharpened pencil. “Please tell me as much as you know.” Mr...
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Unearned, Price Paid by Another
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Only Christ does not require the earning of salvation. Who could merit so acquire to pay for their...
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Mammy
Mammy - By Paul McCann M oments that are worthwhile A lways bring a warm smile M aking light of the time M emories I will find Y esterdays in our time
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Moments With Mammy
Moments With Mammy by Paul McCsnn In her arms she cradled me when I was her wee baby. She kept me warm in the cold , she gave me a smile to hold when...
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Mother Of All Time
Mother Of All Time By Paul McCann Mother of all time I see someone like you there for me . Mother of heaven and earth Mother of gentle rebirth Mother...
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Circus Soleil and The Empress Card
She meets the balloon sculptor at the lido where the water is black and salted. When the tide comes in, the swells slop and jive her towards his...
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The Way We Were: House of Fun, May 1982
Goran’s house was perfectly located, it was on the edge of the Old Court estate where half of us lived, and just a playing field away from the...
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Favourite Quotations of Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for...
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