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The Old Look Back …

The old look back – remember those who long ago chose to take a different road, rebel against a dry, dull code; they liked the shock that shook their… some … belatedly came back – jumped track.
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The Patrolman - 28

June Hartsfield forced herself to stay awake.
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Once Around The Block

You'll know what I mean. The Block. The only solution is a good (bad) old fashioned disaster movie.
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Entry 6 — Scrubbed Raw

Journal of Isla Loren March 22 Location: kitchen window, facing the ocean Weather: overcast, like gauze over a wound Time: 8:02am ~ I should probably...
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Summer Haiku

Bees buzz round roses The sky and sun sing summer The music of Life!
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Xion Island Zero: Chapter 29

Nash stood under a yew tree and watched the last car pull away from the cemetery. The place felt thick with old ghosts, but Max was nowhere around...
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The Fox and the Siamese

Life can be pure magic sometimes. The Fox and the Siamese Another rocket hit a building, a mushroom cloud billowing across my television screen,...
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The Night Cafe

The Night Cafe By Paul McCann The clock on the dashboard said a quarter to six . I pulled up outside the café and took my notepad and pen and went in...

Parents United

Parents United By Paul McCann After Peirre and Sally were married, they were happy enough as husband and wife. They both had their careers and...
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The Editor

The Editor You will haiku the fauna of Haworth. Burn Tehran ballads for those who can’t breathe. Delete a sonnet of limbs rotting in Gaza. Cherish...
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Enzyme

An enzyme* is a complicated protein – long chains of atoms in patterns twisted into shape to help some other molecules unite, combine when needed in the cell’s constant city-like activity. … likened to a molecular computer!
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When Time Has Elapsed

Dear diary... Now sitting quietly in my garden shed, surrounded by implements once used for flower beds; remembering how we lived the dream, that...
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Xion Island Zero: Chapter 28

The wind sweeping through the cemetery was uncommitted, the kind that rustled hems and ribbons but didn’t disturb the dead. Even the weather managed...
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In The Land Where Music Flows

In The Land Where Music Flows By Paul McCann’ Cusheen found it difficult to sleep and her crying was keeping the new born awake who was in the same...
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Equal.

I remember when I was at school, many moons ago. There were SO many things that were not equal! It was the norm, it was to be expected, sometimes it...

Just now

Just now just now you take me you love me just now time move along like a sailing ship on the ocean so peaceful and calm just love just now and the...
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Just now

Just now just now you take me you love me just now time move along like a sailing ship on the ocean so peaceful and calm just love just now and the...

Booty Ain't What It Used to Be

I wrote a pirate sea shanty lyrics (with an Irish vibe first) last week. A gag on modern piracy compared to how it was in the old days It soon became...
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Dead Man: 5

And so there John found himself, in this peculiar kind of limbo. Of all the possibilities there could be after death, this was the one that he had...
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The Glass Floor

Some readers may have seen my speculation piece on the 'glass ceiling' of human endeavour. This pointed out the apparent inability of humankind to...
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