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Streets of Stoke Newington
Possibly the most tenuous link ever to a weekly inspirational point (this week it’s toast) and a fond recollection of happy times in the mid-1980s living with ‘her indoors’ in a North London oasis of social harmony.
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The Book: Chapter 26
She stared at the book. It lay on her desk, unmoving, but, as always, it lurked. It made its presence felt. It was always there, waiting to destroy...
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Welcome to the New World
There's a deal to be made but everybody dies...
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Push Me In The River
If you have ever fallen into a moat, lake, swamp, paddling pool or any small body of water you will know how I feel right now. This is a go home...
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Even wider than it was before
I walk past a teenager eating a cooked breakfast on his own in a brightly coloured café and immediately remember a holiday when I was about fifteen,...
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A toast to all the shamans!
Our visit to the Saatchi Gallery had been unexpectedly emotional. An exhibition themed around flowers—automatically romantic, explosive with colour...
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The Patrolman - 11
In Inglewood, Jake Lacey hunched over his kitchen sink.
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One Of The Best Films I Ever Saw.
One of the best films I ever saw many years ago, and one I will never watch again, was Mississippi Burning, it is deep, and it is powerful . It is...
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i wanted you
I run my fingers through your hair I touch your face I hear you breathing so softly i take your sweet hand in mine oh how I love you so much the...
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not sure how i feel about this one
just a note to say that i am not sure about what i am about to put up here. now a warning before hand this is not about me, it deal with goodbye a...
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Chapter 25
Chapter 25 (No missing chapter. I extended chapter 23 and split it into two.) Alice stirred, sensing a presence in her room before she opened her...
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A Reason To Find The Will To Live
A Reason To Find The Will To Live By Paul McCann Jimmy was wild child , a lone wolf . He was always making trouble . He was expelled from school at...
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Spotlighting - Part 2 of 4
Mitch scowls at Lucas and exits. Lucas, careful of his button, picks up his manual to read again. He begins to yawn, tries to stop himself, but fails...
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Holy Moley Out Of Controley
Holy Moley Out Of Controley By Paul McCann Well the storm blew in this morning just about half past ten, I never saw it coming , too late to shut the...
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The Face in the Pollock
Something ominous in a work of abstract expressionism
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Mother Of All
Mother Of All By Paul McCann Mother of all you’re the sunshine of heaven and the warmth of love divine ‘ Mother of all you are the clouds in the sky...
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Rest In Peace, Mom - Part VIII
It was twelve years ago today when I found you dead. I knew you had died because you were lying lifeless on that hospital bed. I bought you a card...
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C.P.
The city that I grew up in, in the heart of the it, is bank card only, no cash at all is allowed! I think that is SO wrong, for cash is till legal...
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Spotlighting - Part 1 of 4
SPOTLIGHTING A Play in One-Act By Joe Kuhlman SETTING: TIME: After 9/11. Before 2010. PLACE: A basement work station. CHARACTERS: MITCH (M, Early 30’...
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