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Living Breathing Water

Living Breathing Water By Paul Mc Cann The waters alive and dangerous like a flowing lava stream on a mountain of ice . The waters burning with the...

Learning to Live

The lightning crackled overhead, momentarily illuminating the coal black sky. This darkness in which we resided had lingered eerily in the sky for...
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Follow The Leader

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants. (Anton Chekhov) Image source Pixabay Photographer Rob Glenister.
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Three Little Things

. Three Little Things By Paul McCann Three little things . One two three. Faith and hope and charity. Faith can bring us peace of mind. Hope leaves...

The Green It Thing

. The Green It Thing By Paul McCann It dislikes , It teases. It taunts . It cries , It displeases It haunts It tries , It cheats It tests our core...

There's Never Enough Love To Go Around

. . There’s Never Enough Love By Paul McCann I look up to the sky above and wish upon a star , everybody needs some love ,It don’t matter who you are...
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Rooks

Rooks Past the backbone’s second hump and hollow hawthorns, a foam of brackish snow and distant light. I heard them first, a row of hanging rooks –...
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Pairs

Everybody gets into pairs “Stand by your partner” The teacher says Except for me, I carry the kit Years later, life is full of couples Hand-holders...
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Carolina Cromwell and The Mystery of the Grand Duchess (Part Two)

Dinner with the Vanderbilts. How absolutely wonderful. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Carolina Cromwell and The Mystery of the Grand Duchess (Part One)

New York, September 1930, A PI, an aristocrat, and a young woman who doesn't want to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia. What could possibly go wrong? Picture: Pixabay Creative Commomns.
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03.4 The Staging Post

The Defence Minister of Wizarat-Al-Aman-Am, or the Ministry of Public Security, Manan Rock , was twenty-nine years old. He sat behind the desk...
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Purple, Black, White and Red

Purple, Black, White and Red Why are you wearing a purple poppy, For aren’t they supposed to be red? I wear it for animals lost in wars, All of those...
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Corona Log entry- NOv. 11, 2020

Wed. November 11, 2020 Veteran’s Day It is a very soggy morning here in SW Florida. We are under a Tornado warning and experiencing heavy rains from...

“… our help in ages past …"

Ideas willowy and vague about the supernatural … One who’s real, historical … many find His aid in need: … Why won’t he pull the strings to fully stop these awful things? …
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Ask Not

Written by FS Lawrie E A (ret'd) Image by FS Lawrie TY (ret'd) Dedicated to WO Lawrie A (RIP)
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Folklore #1

"If there's owt worse than them young'uns, it's them old'uns. And as fut middle'uns.... (Old Sam spits a glob of bubbling green phlegm into the...

chaos

Chaos stares through a veil of history; ghosts long forgotton; tears spent through a veil of rain; a winter suspended in confusion. Long are the...

To Love The Many Ways

. To Love The Many Ways By Paul McCann Are these the words you want to hear . As I speak softly in your ear . Are you always in a hurry ? Let me tell...

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