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Tom Tom Turnaround (6) (ii)
Mum stopped working at Gibney's and took another job cleaning at the pub where she and dad used to go in the evenings. On some days she took him with...
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Tom Tom Turnaround (6) (i)
Then there were days when different things happened. Days when dad would take him out on the lorry when he did forage deliveries around the city and...
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Weather App. Haiku # 17
Sun and wind compete Weatherwise a better day A feelgood factor!
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Street Games From Another Time
Street Games From Another Time By Paul McCann In another time that seems so distant now we used to play games of one kind or another around the...
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On the bright side (IP)
Woke up late for the job interview, No shower, no breakfast, no time for a brew. The clock sneered ten; I cursed, I ran, But on the bright side, I...
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Figurehead
I ride the hag back
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My Father Is Younger Than Me
It had been sixty years since I last saw him
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Is That Even Allowed?
Brought in a ringer allowable. Saturday was Foggie Farmer’s Market. Thought, ‘no spend, no go’. Then thought, it’ll be all Hallowe’en-y, there are...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (ii)
A couple of days later, he came over again. He'd brought his copy of mum's key, so I now had them all. Four door keys in total, plus two for the back...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (i)
Following the final day with the clearance at the bungalow, it's time to pay some bills. (continued from 'Final Day') The next day, I went into Walsh...
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The Bloody Great Stone Heads Problem
I was woken at 6.30 one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and hurried downstairs to find Alun in an excited mood. “ We’ve got...
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Weather App. Haiku #16
A break in the storm? Bright sunbursts through windblown cloud. Has Ashley moved on?
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Mixed Up Girl
Mixed Up Girl By Paul McCann Keira worked as a clerical assistant for a firm that imported modern day antiques from Indonesia . The owners of the...
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Don't Look Back
Shackleton is haunting me. Pondering what sort of man he was, charismatic, single-minded adventurer. A man who lived by the tenet, "Optimism is true...
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Nights Out With Mammy
Nights Out With Mammy By Paul McCann As a boy scout , we were always doing different activities One of those was an unexpected , unrehearsed , play...
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Don’t feel 'at home'
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I do not feel ‘at home’ here, an ‘alien’ now exiled, for evil things are done here and everything’s defiled...
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MONKEY'S NEW MOON - RELOJANDO CRONICOS
The next chapter in the Clocking Chronicles time-travel series. Detective Tempus travels to the Middle Ages.....
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God Save Me
She’d been active in previous weeks. It had become a kind of ritual; when the sun began its fiery descent, she knew it was time to get ready. Active...
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A Long Woman
Is that the Long Woman, Mam? I heard a wee boy say to his mother, referring to an old legend we could all at the very least half-remember. The Long...
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