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The Traveller - Authors Foreword

The Traveller A Novel By By Paul McCann Authors Foreword He was born gifted and as he grew he knew he was different . At a young age he had a...

An Old Farmer Remembers

I remember ploughing that field. And once fixing the tractor as I kneeled. Feeling raw skin as it peeled. The sun and stick, a nasty wield. Lots to...
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A Useful Day

Tuesday, which was supposed to be sunny and bright, trickled in, a smir of cold, wet mist and haar. How very grey-white and useful of it. A good...

Money On The Plate

Money On The Plate By Paul McCann Daddy was a family man who worked hard 5 days a week . There were five of us kids who he took for long walks up the...
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Renaissance.

So it must have been after the birth of the Ku Klux Klan In the first, bright light, the spellbound hugged themselves In their fields of late-cropped...
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Story of the week

Message : Post Scriptum

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Weather App Haiku # 19

The sun smiles faintly It looks frosty out there All is still- no wind!
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Meat Crimes - Scene 4

SCENE 4: INT. SHANK AND BRISKET'S APARTMENT - NIGHT Shank rummages through a box filled with mismatched clothes while Brisket stares nervously at the...

Not A Lot Of People Know This.

Over the years, whenever a sales person has told me, "No you can not have a refund because you have just seen it for a cheaper price." Having just...

On the Shelf Again, so to speak! By Alfred N.Muggins

3/7/24 No Mrs Muggins has not left me (yet??) Alfred refers to his ongoing employment problems, for which he partly (largely?) blames Social Services...
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Meat Crimes - Scene 3

SCENE 3: INT. POLICE STATION - CHIEF CONSTABLE WAGSTAFF'S OFFICE - DAY Chief Constable WAGSTAFF, a stern man with a perpetually furrowed brow, sits...
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Meat Crimes - Scene 2

SCENE 2: INT. POLICE STATION - DAY Shank and Brisket slump into their worn-out chairs at their cluttered desks. Brisket starts flipping through a...
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Meat Crimes - Scene 1

SCENE 1 INT. LOCAL CAFE - MORNING The cafe is dimly lit, with a flickering neon sign that reads "Cafe Grizzle." Mismatched tables and chairs fill the...

Light in Darkness

Plot’s failure many celebrate by fine displays of colourful light brightening up the sky at night – a sparkling starry vivid sight … soon Christmas comes – the silent night a few poor shepherd’s sudden sight and hearing of …
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The 'Wand'

some flash fiction
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One Tick Short of a Tock

Senior moment Friday evening. Had planned to go to Elgin Cathedral on the ‘free entry’ deal on Saturday. Bus there, eyes peeled for bow-fiddle rock...
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Bus Pass Has a Mystery to Solve

Bus Pass was cock-a-hoop. A doubler! Two top deck trips in the same week. This time, two whole hours, to a big town. There would be shops. Cafés...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 22

There was just over an hour and a half left before sunset when the doorbell played Beethoven’s Für Elise. Perfidia’s eyes widened and she looked at...
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