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The Big Blank (2/2)
I had two accidents more than twenty-five years apart, and remembered nothing from in between
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The Big Blank (1/2)
I had two accidents more than twenty-five years apart, and remembered nothing from in between
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Withnail & I 2: Beer and Loving in Penrith (2)
Part 2 of my sequel to 'Withnail & I'. Marwood, now nearly 60 and working in a supermarket, has just found out from a newspaper obituary that...
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What Would I Take? Part Three.
“It is unsinkable,” There is nothing new under the sun, nothing! Those words have been said, many times before, and I heard them said again today;...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 7
Sebastian had never been one for obsession. He was the kind of man who floated through life, letting the current take him wherever it pleased. But...
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What Would I Take? Part Two.
If I were in a dire situation, be it on land or at sea, what one thing would I grab, if I had to flee for my life? If I had the chance to take two...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 6
The days in Piornal had started to feel more settled for Sebastian and Oliver, yet the village still held its secrets. The winding streets, the...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 5
By the time autumn had fully bathed Piornal in golds and reds, Sebastian and Oliver had carved out a niche for themselves in the village. The locals...
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You Helped Me To Forget
You Helped Me To Forget By Paul McCann I still remember that day that you came my way when love came to me in a very special way I’ve never forgotten...
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The Lumbers Of Love
The Lumbers Of Love By Paul McCann We held on to our faith through thick and thin in all the situations we were in . We worked together in the...
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Between Me And you
Between Me And you By Paul McCann Between me and you there , across the peace line we would all go for there was nothing more to do and we all run...
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What Would I Take?
It all seems a bit sketchy, it felt to me, like bits of news, here and there. The news that came to me, seemed to me did not seem to start at the...
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the claimant.
That morning, a husband and wife team—physiotherapist and psychologist—shot him a glance in the stairwell. Dr Sim always took the stairs. He knew...
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Beauty in the forgotten
In the gallery of thoughts, where opinions are brushstrokes, each hue a touch of the self, I stand, palette in hand, unfurling my own colours, bold...
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Withnail & I 2: Beer and Loving in Penrith (1)
I recently completed a script for a sequel to the 1987 cult comedy 'Withnail & I'. It is set 30 years after the original film - on the cusp of...
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Pareidolia
Look into the flames, and what do you see? Horses and dragons flash in and flee, faces and castles seem to appear for an instant, then disappear?...
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Shorthand conversations
You ask me about the kids I went to school with over thirty years ago I see them sometimes in the street And sometimes wave hello and sometimes do nt...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 4
Sebastian and Oliver arrived back in Extremadura with two suitcases and a dream so vivid it nearly popped like a soap bubble the moment they stepped...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 3
The moment they stepped off the plane, England’s undeniably rich greenery did its best to win back their hearts, but their newfound passion was too...
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run-of-the-mill sexual assault.
I guess it was a classic run-of-the-mill sexual assault. I hadn’t thought about it in a long while. Until one of my wife’s friends said something,...
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