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A Suitable Job For A Cynic
A satirical point of view.
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The Life Of Jim ( Part 2)
It’s Wednesday and I’ve just had two days' work. My mate Tony has got his own Painting and Decorating company. If he’s short of labour, he gives me a...
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A Tapestry in Eighteen Panels
Panel I: The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers A shield quartered with dolphins and sea-lions, gold and azure, a trident piercing waves. Lions wear...
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Arrival in Hallowmere
The train station at Hallowmere was notable for two things: first, it was the sort of place that made you wonder whether civilisation had ever quite...
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Safe Home
Safe Home I’ll protect you from the hooded claw Keep the vampires from your door. When the chips are down I’ll be around with my undying Death-...
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Climate Changing ? ( Weather App. Haiku # 34 )
Sun shining, still warm- Is it Summer or Autumn, or a bit of both?
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Fish Face
You may be familiar with the story ‘The Office Goth,’ which was posted online last year on a well-known writing website. Well Lorraine Denning, the...
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“The T-shirt says it all”
– or does it? …
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John Brown's 55th Birthday
Today would've been his birthday but he didn't survive. If John hadn't died, today he would've turned fifty-five. He started by smoking pot and then...
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It's Grim Up North
Whilst strolling gently down twilight road I encountered a man worsted by sombre load His knees were bent and shoulders cowed And his manner ungainly...
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Mother Of Karma
Mother Of Karma by Paul McCann Mother of karma mysterious are your ways and sweet is the call . Mother of karma justice is the answer eventually for...
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Birthday Blues by Alfred Muggins
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11/12/24 Alfred woke up well 45 minutes earlier than his alarm was due to go off, to set him on the path to his wife’s sister’s house to accompany...
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Recalled (Episode 24 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
Gwladys, Aefelthrith and Dolly are reminiscing, not always fondly.
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The Life Of Jim. ( Part 1)
I’ve woken up in some weird places. A car park in the middle of a housing estate, a neighbour's garden, a bathtub in a house owned by someone I didn’...
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circle of the rings
hand in hand your hand my hand ring and ring my ring your ring our day of glory of our victory life gives life and loves to love glowing lustre gold...
Fannying About!
Self-care is Good, I have been trying to do this. Each morning, I have a whole orange, cut into fours, and have liquid cod liver oil, the Seven Seas...
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Europe.
Something popped up on my mobile phone this week, I glanced at it, but it didn’t make sense. Then a few days later, something came up on my mobile...
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Body of Evidence
It never ceases to amaze me how adults can be so gullible. When Geoffrey Catchpole was noticed doing his own shopping at the village store and...
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Bloody, brawling business chapter 1
He put his arm behind him to catch his fall as he stumbled backwards. The rough pavement’s sharp rocks tore into the skin covering his elbow as he...
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One Wrong Turn
One Wrong Turn By Paul McCann He was always under the hammer never as ease , pumping pills to stay awake , driving too many hours , taking risks with...
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