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does that phone work with crumpets?
does that phone work with crumpets? i have a toaster, a useful appliance – it can make toast elevate a teacake crisp a crumpet (eventually) even warm...
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The Heart Of The Place We Call Home
The Heart Of The Place We Call Home By Paul McCann I grew up in Ireland and found a loving community who believed in God and we all lived together in...
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Running With Cuchulainn
Running With Cuchulainn By Paul McCann Every street in Ardoyne had there own wee groups that would play games and tell stories , There was a group of...
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Mother Of Songs
Mother of songs By Paul McCann Mother of songs the melody is you it moves on the wind and flies high above Mother of songs you sing full of grace and...
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Waves and Fishes
For several weeks now, I have been threatening to walk the few miles to the fishmongers in the next village. It is a beautiful walk along a...
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Whispers of Wellness: A Fitness Center Trio’s Journey - Part 1
Welcome to the fitness center. Here, bravery fights with insecurity, together with the sounds of weights and machines. In the noise, you will find...
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The Market.
I never shop at the market. My Husband Paul loves it. Just before Christmas last year, we were in the Town together, that is rare. We do shop...
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Sean Happens 5
Mum sent Sean up to the Potter house to apologise. When she’d heard what happened, ‘I’m black mortified,’ she’d said. She’d waved away the idea of...
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Parcel for you...Part 24
Vanessa passed a long, uncomfortable night. She couldn’t escape the sounds of her daughter, rifling through bags, stomping to the bathroom and back...
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Travelling In Silence (Train Journey 2013)
My son asks me to speak more. I don’t. In the Quiet Coach I talk with a professional poet. A woman angrily tells us speaking is not allowed there.
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A Wee Word In Your Ear
A Wee Word In Your Ear By Paul McCann “Mrs Mc Afee and how would you be ?” “ Dead on there . How’s yourself Mr Magee ?” “Couldn’t be better despite...
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1:5:1 Quararr (Part 1)
Confusion. Their wrist burnt and they felt as though they had sunk significantly into the ground around them. Dazed, their whole body tingling, they...
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A walk in my new neighbourhood
I am sliding in love With this--dare I call it--home This cosy bundle of streets Unravelling for me to explore These buttercream houses Primly...
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There's a Ghost in My House (Dead Reckoning series - Part 6)
In which Josiah renews an old friendship and Archibald develops his spiritual side in the garden.
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Camping At Cavehill
Camping At Cavehill By Paul McCann Small groups of us used to leave Ardoyne for different reasons . To get branches up the Glen for Bonfire night or...
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Strange Phenomena
I have certain clothes I would never dream of wearing outside the privacy of my own home. Nothing kinky. Plenty time for that later. No, these...
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New Directions (18)
It was almost midnight when I arrived home. Chucking my clothes in a bloodstained heap near the toilet bowl I climbed into bed naked and dirty too...
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The Neighborhood
The Neighborhood Living in the beehive like density of our urban neighborhoods in South Buffalo, New York, we had the custom of literally calling on...
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False Friendship
Eee by gum, Here he do cum. Bull's balls and cow's bum. Face hideous and brain numb. Drooping moobs and bulbous tum. No dad and an ogress mum. So let...
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Short Stories Part Four.
When I was age three, we lived in a small bedsit, the building was three story high. One day there was a fire. We lived on the second floor. On the...
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