Read

Xion Island Zero Chapter 40 and 41

Chapter 40 I am filled with hatred. I am done! Chapter 41 The room pulsed with heat, making Nash’s head spin. He was drowning in the stink of sweat...

Escape To Yonder Valley's

Escape To Yonder Valley's By Paul McCann The young man and his daughter riding the road on an iron horse cutting the breeze. They were getting away...

Away With The Fairies

Away With The Fairies By Paul McCann I’ve been away for about twenty years with the fairies and luckily during that time I’ve never aged . Each day I...
2 likes

Short story

I like the idea of trying to convey a whole story, by implication, in as few words as possible. This is my go at it, using fifty words.

On The Path To A Place Long Gone

On The Path To A Place Long Gone by Paul McCann She was one of the invited few who had been given clues about the secret places that no one even knew...
1 likes

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

He was 54 years old but that was still too young to go. He starred as Theodore Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show'. He was asphyxiated and he drowned. It's...
Cherry

Homage

Homage … a warm velvet morning, over silver spun sand, the seashore in sight… The lighthouse blinks a warm welcome and the foghorn booms out a salute...

Elaine of Cardiff (Splott)

I thought there was maybe an analogy between the Lady of Shalott and a girl staring at the screen of her mobile phone to find love. Both of them are watching real life go by, without being part of it.
1 likes

Eloquence

Perusing the culture section In the public library Boy is gonna get wise It's a big world out there and he wants to open his eyes He read about...

Purchase Requisition

The cost of democracy is going through the roof It's getting harder to combine A politiciian amd the truth There's a catwalk wit a queue Full of...
Cherry

Butterfly in a Storm

The wind stripped the petals of dandelions The rain poured from a burst cloud The branches on trees were wrestling each other Leaves were flying to...
1 likes
Gold cherry

When I searched for you

When I searched for you If I used the forbidden eye to bring back the old wooden bridge over the slow streaming brook, the gnarled carvings of names...
3 likes

Night In An Asylum

Night In An Asylum By Paul McCann As a young single man with no wife or children Bobby was working hard running a petrol station . He worked seven...
Cherry

Put Out Fewer Flags

All too obvious, no doubt, but here it is anyway.
2 likes
Cherry

harmers 2

She dabbed the scab at her wrist shaped like a keyhole. Picking at it. Although she knew she shouldn’t. Dr Malik was on the phone. Always on the...
Cherry

wonkness test

Mussolini, Mein Kampf and our British Empire’s ideology Our struggle, not only on land and sea Our struggle to define ‘we’ Was never wonk work...
Cherry

The Turd Age of Humankind

Oh my word! The unrelenting turd. Any watching god, would give us the bird. Positive proof of a glorified herd. Buried alive in our own foul curd. A...
Cherry

Worst Case Scenario - Being Peter To Save Paul (Part One)

“Thing is mate, you do your day's work and get $80-100 dollars easy - that covers yeh sack and grub, the rest goes on yeh piss, know what I mean? ”...

Pages