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(This Life) Part 8: Love and The Clarinet Maker
the intensity of love
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Ouch!
Don’t touch! It’s hot! … Ouch! …
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The Picture Ranch 59
Long time no hear... Micawber Fisher P.I. is still in trouble. Re - "priest-brained fish", accompanying image is a fisherman's priest.
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The Journey. Part Three.
Mum and Auntie had thought of everything, while they were living abroad, they had paid for their burial site and the whole funeral. Now they were...
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Inside the Mind Of Vladimir Putin by Mr Alfred N.Muggins
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16/3/22 (Potentate Putin, Comrade KGB, The Terrorist President, The Last Czar of Russia (who has now definitely superceded Nicholas Romanov II, who...
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Ugly Puggly 43
‘The last time I was up here, it was my aunt’s funeral—and it always freezin’. I hadn’t brought a jacket and tried to rub some warmth into my arms. ‘...
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Rain or Shine (2)
My neighbour Harry taught me much about the woods - called me ‘tadpole’ at the time. I learned the value of a mosquito net put worms on my hook use a...
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The Travellers
. The Travellers by Paul McCann There are too many heroes lying in the dust and I wonder if they , will ever learn to trust , they’re walking like...
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S T Vasectomy Clinic - 16
St John Hughes He had become so used to the perennial pregnant pause in their relationship. It had started off that way, in the early years of their...
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Otters' Child
Small speed write on attending a SEND transition exhibition
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From Out of the Bush
When I was a boy I had a great admiration for maps. So much so, that I would often receive them as gifts. These remain some of my most jealously...
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The Asylum Part 2
It was summer and the hospital required for us to get some air daily. I was ushered into a courtyard, about twenty meters by twenty meters, which was...
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The Asylum Part 1
As we drove down the windy gravelled road, our tires kicking pebbles into the trees that towered over us like a canopy trying to hide what was to...
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Running For Home
Running For home By Paul McCann I’ve got two strong legs and one strong heart I’m ready to run right from the start a shot was fired from the...
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on the nature of dehumanization
We often talk of the Holocaust and say never again; as though mechanized oppression and slaughter were not part of contemporary reality. But...
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rage, rage against the Dying of your Rights
eagerly we grab new inventions rejoicing in humankind's progress, each smoothing of the way to Earth's immolation pile up mistakes to rectify...
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Recycling Without the Helmet
It seems years ago since I went to a jumble sale or car boot, and that's not surprising because it's actually been decades. But I remember them well...
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Gareth's Body
The conversation with the registrar’s assistant leaves Emily shivering, despite the warmth of the day. Throughout the call the insensitive jobsworth...
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Bubby
He was called Bubby and he went to Heaven. He died in 2018 at the young age of fifty-seven. When we moved into my house in 1977, Bubby became our...
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