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Weather App. Haiku # 18
Sun dazzles brightly, The leaves are almost gone But the sun still shines!
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The Holy Land
The Holy Land neath hammer blows - is this what Jesus prophesied: when sad-sack’s hanged like mistletoes the sightless see a suicide; when tho usands...
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The Speed Of Dark // Eclipse
No clock can measure, no hand can stay, The speed of darkness eats the day. Like Magritte’s sky of feathered night, It swallows sun, eclipses light...
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Letter to Paul Simon from Cecilia (circa. Feb 1970)
Dear Simon, I’m writing this because, well, you keep showing up at my door with that same sad look, and it’s time we get a few things straight. It’s...
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After All These Years
After All These Years By Paul McCann Johnny and Chris first met by chance in a music shop . They both were looking for a new set of guitar strings...
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DetermiNature
Last Tuesday’s striding out in the fresh air was more a scramble in the bracing sea breezes, over the pebbly moonwalk landscape that is, Spey Bay...
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Ghost Story
Ghost Story I don’t believe in ghosts. At least that’s what I’ve always said. Memories can be fragile. I should be lucid and know exactly what I’m...
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A Child's view of Halloween
Halloween-through a child’s eyes. The pile of pumpkins that I was sitting in had ripened to an orange softness that was appealing to the eye and...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 21
“Perfidia,” Martha said with an apologetic look as she entered the kitchen from the backdoor, “I’m sorry we couldn’t wait for you.” “I understand. It...
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There's Time
Saturday was chilly-sunny and at first, super calm. As if time had stopped, before turning back. Started the Virginia Woolf walk. Saw three ships,...
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Parcel for You..Part 39
The man looked up at her with a blank expression. ‘Some people get these cyber partners just so they can be abusive to them,’ he said, ‘it’s a kink...
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One Sound
One Sound Short Story By Paul McCann It was the day all the human race had feared and hoped would never happen . Doomsday , the war to end all wars...
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While there is time …
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] So now we have this time to learn the truth of all …
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If Netanyahu and the Israelis should invade Britain? (Don’t panic! It’s only History repeating itself!) by Alfred N.Muggins
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19/10/24 I didn’t know this was your promised land? You say you need a place to go, a roof over your heads and food in your belly. But where have you...
Hey Lover
At the end of the day, I sold you a love story, I told my dreams and ambitions, I told you all I was and felt, I shook when I saw you and till now,...
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Photograph (Dead Reckoning series - Part 32)
The Detectives might be empty-handed at the chip shop, apart from D.I. Wood, but D.S. Stone just might have something up his sleeve!
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The Revelation
Eee by gum I'll pat me tum. Put a finger up me bum. At last I've realised, the world is dumb. Either that, or I've gone numb. So I'll tootle off and...
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Ceteris Paribus
Given third act concerns regarding ‘going doolally’, as well as striding out in the fresh air to exercise the body, some regular brain exercises are...
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The choices that define us
He appears to be drunk. He is sprawled on the stairway that leads to the basement. Where the bathrooms are. The fact that he is heavily intoxicated...
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