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Risk-Taker
Slinking through the grass I crept close enough to observe a doe and a young one resting in the sun by a pond its glimmer backed by a forest of fir...
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Dark Age Sands
This is not how we planned it, the careful sift stratified to mechanical layers, a mosaic of meaning in the shattered soil. Bury this and it comes...
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Don’t misuse his name.
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Saddened when you use his name in exasperation … we too must speak with truth, not lies … or we’d thus his name misuse …
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Whispers In The Wind
Whispers In The Wind By Paul McCann Every so often I hear you say will there ever come a day When our whispers will all blow away , through the...
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King Tut
A man in a boy’s body meant divinity— Guardians claimed he was above all in his kingdom. His was the choice of life and it came to pass a servant...
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Magnus (2/2)
‘Is that so?’ said Mrs Morrison. ‘The roses in the churchyard are coming into bloom.’ She coughed again. ‘My husband’s brother cares for them,’ said...
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Magnus (1/2)
I She watched her husband wrestle with the tides. She was wrestling, too. The tide was coming in, at the bay, and yet he embraced it, his arms wide...
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Kieren Fallon - The Biography
A sentence on the inside of the fly cover of this book sums up Kieren Fallon’s career in the saddle: ‘Triumph and disaster have been inseparable...
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Road Trip
It took three attempts to finally get out of the carpark and escape the confines of the airport that didn’t want them to leave. James grumbled,...
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Appetite
Simon stood, pushing himself up from the sofa, and then stopped. He felt it, there in his stomach. A spasm rippled right across his abdomen, like...
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Chasing After Dreams
Chasing After Dreams By Paul McCann I’m chasing after the day , before tomorrow comes Its easy to catch up on things that way . I’m racing against...
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The Wait
Un bel di vedremo.... (Image: Wiki commons).
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The Airport
Ellie reversed the Jeep badly into the only available space she could find. It seemed like everyone and their dog were visiting the airport that day...
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Exiles Of Love
Exiles Of Love By Paul McCann An appetite for justice has overkilled today and I think about the mission so many miles away . Where bellies filled...
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Melancholic pigeons from Berlin.
Chords are played on a piano in Berlin. They are played with a slow, melancholic touch, late on a cold night. The apartment is quiet and the sounds...
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Dead Cheese and Pickle Sandwich
I used to be anxious about dealing a single deck with all the cards facing down. You said it goes away with the drink – free spirit for the boys...
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Flickr
Inside memories, ourselves to be Likes, soul scratches, tempts us Worst of all indelible Sauce for the gossips Friends and lovers, unknowable Jokes,...
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Black Friday At The Hospital
I have a sad story that requires music that's played by a fiddle. I've been wounded and I'm spending Black Friday at the hospital. Gamestop announced...
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Ross on Wye and Chase Wood 15/11/18
Full Wye flows around the town – town sitting on its cliff; with wooded slopes behind. Walk along the Wye out west of town, then turn towards the hill …
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Moon Whisperer
Hello, moon. Caught you smiling just a bit ago. Made me smile a bit, as well. I know what you’re thinking. That I’m about to ask you, once again, if...
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