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The Storyteller - Chapter 2

The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 2 The Gypsy King Sean McKay was a gifted story teller and it was said people who heard him fell into a...

The Storyteller - Chapter 1

The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 1 The Air Raid Shelter The storyteller awoke at sunrise after spending the night inside a cave that...
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Requiem for a bearded reedling

Immediately, I feel something is terribly wrong. And it is the not the first time. But I dare not think about what it can be. Let alone to ask the...

Meat Market

Boys in caps avid at gringo gossip Coked up tropical shirt frat bros Tongues in throats And men far too old (whatever that means) slipping a tenner...

Matter

Accost the old man bring him back to days you were a regular at his pizza joint Re-charm him in Italian like you did before when you had a different...

The Story of Greylizard Webdesign

It all started in 1977, I think. It was certainly the late 70s. I was 7. I was allowed to go to my mum’s work, an accountants where she was a...
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Esther

In the quiet corners of her heart, Esther’s voice, “Please let me be allowed to write about peace,” her pen trembling, sipping the ink of hope from...

1:5:4 Rewind (Part 4)

“To see the end, we have to go back to the beginning.” The room flew off into the distance or they flew away from it and into the void. Things were...
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Missing You (Dead Reckoning series - Part 21)

In which Samantha attempts to be taken seriously and Archibald has even more concerns!
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Libraries, temples of learning.

Cazenovia Library, temple of learning. At the age of four, I started visiting this temple that is the Cazenovia Park Library, in South Buffalo, N.Y...

Tiredness (A Sonnet of Sorts!)

Tiredness (A Sonnet of Sorts!) Jennifer Pickup 09.08.2024 This morning, I could not get out of bed – More ‘waking the dead’ than just ‘sleepy head’!...

The Wee Ones - Foreward

. The Wee Ones A novel By Paul McCann Foreword The stories about the wee ones have been told by many generations . The presence of little people or...

The Wee Ones -Chapter 14

The Wee Ones A novel By Paul McCann Chapter 14 Funny Old World Theres a wee one called Hopper who lives by the door of the forest in a hollow log ...

The Wee Ones- Chapter 13

The Wee Ones A novel By Paul McCann Chapter 13 Switching Trains In vision valley there lived a young boy called Sammy . He was innocent and a decent...
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A hundred moments in autism - The Royal Mile

As an introverted autist, shouting for people to look at me is not something deep-rooted in my DNA, very much the opposite. I am flyering my wife’s...
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A hundred moments in autism - Alan Ritson comes to visit

Alan Ritson came to visit my house twice in all the years I knew him (hi Alan, if you’re reading this) The first time I was in the front room...
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A hundred moments in autism - The day I lied to a politician

Labour Party conference 2007. Our charity is part of a joint fringe event called the Health Hotel, involving representatives from over twenty health...
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Hopkins. Part Two.

Meghan waited until Tuesday to contact Amazon, like they told her to in an email. She was sitting next to me, when she went into her email, there was...

Tesco.

The main shop that we do our shopping is, the supermarket Tesco. Around England, there are all different types of Tesco’s, some are called expressed...
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Sleeping Stones

Sleeping Stones I hovered closely as the car was loaded. My playmate was leaving with his parents on holiday to go camping in Cornwall. It was 1965...

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