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Goatie 25
I kept my eyes on the door. Aware she was behind me, growing like a wave on the sea, but it would be me that left no trace when she was gone. I had...
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Grumbles Of An Empty Heart .
Grumbles Of An Empty Heart . By Paul McCann Homeless plates in an internet cafe , where young boys search through derelict heartaches on inroads to...
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Goatie 24
‘Yeh hink dogs can by psychic?’ Archie pondered. I wasn’t sure if he was talking to himself or me. I was going to keep silent, but muttered, ‘Dunno...
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In A Place Of Respite
In forest dream, I draw on such sensations, my world suspended between sky and earth; where tiny insects crawl, some fly to unhurried silence,...
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Gone.
A falling leaf From a rustling tree A raindrop hitches a ride In between swaying branches Nature takes no chances It has a story to tell All it can...
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Professor Circumcision (a cerebral comedy)
Oh academia is so peculiar! For some it’s the perfect fix For others its a box of tricks Those who claim to grasp it Like to remind those who don’t...
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 18 (a)
It was getting harder to keep a lid on things—stories leaked from the incident room every day, things that only the team had access to. Paranoia was...
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Goatie 23
Being in prison was like dossing under a motorway bridge. Constant noise and always something going on. Shaking you up. Droopy Eyes talking about...
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15.1 The Slit
One more time, he was back in Thora. Seated in the dining when the girl surprised him with a broad smile and a wide mouth. “Does mosquito bother you...
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A Beer With The Owner
Spanish days around 2015. Not about much, marked safe for not reading. Image authors own.
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 17
The boys were found within three hours of each other. On both occasions, it was the scent of honeysuckle that made the parents investigate and find...
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‘As useful as a chocolate teapot!'
I’m a chocolate teapot looking swell; but for tea I’m useless – heat will tell! Collapsing in hot water – I will keep cool and idle, or I’m soon a...
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Trivial Pursuits
One of the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming (so it is said) is carbon dioxide. Human beings exhale carbon dioxide with every breath...
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A Unique Union
A Unique Union Hey mam Kalpana and pal Santosh your GJ day is special to us. On your Golden Jubilee wedding day Lord came out to bless your stay not...
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Goatie 22
Droopy Eyes came back to work in a good mood. It was half-five before she got back to me in the medic room. And she’d soon be knocking off for...
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Before The End Day
Before The End Day by Paul McCann The two weary travellers’ stood there under a constellation of stars that were formed in several pattern’s in...
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14.2 Bedrock
Instincts told him, those four guys blew up the bedrock. Shocking! He realised that he was witnessing the perpetrators who plotted an implosion to...
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Shadowy Visions Of The Past
These days you've probably seen more interesting cupboards than mine, but lately I haven't felt the need to shower my taste buds in the joys that...
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 16
‘Didn’t somebody come to our borough asking about a missing sister in Morecambe?’ Nash asked. He’d come out of the interview two days earlier and...
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Dragon Gate
Dragon Gate They came during the spring near banks of oriental ochre, an amalgam of golden scales, amassed; mighty Yellow River. A brazen sun called...
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