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A Tale of Two Balkan Cities
Described at the rate of exactly one hundred words per day, this is what Turlough Ó Maoláins do for entertainment during the first half of the November month.
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Free Bird Fly
Free Bird Fly By Paul McCann The bird has found a home and a new day has begun to an open sky , music rises with the sun . The songs of life we hear...
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A Christmas Wonderland
A Christmas Wonderland by Paul McCann Well I had just put all the kids to bed and went to bathroom to brush my teeth and get ready to go to bed...
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silent as need be
Rain battered down. A give-and-take. They walked side-by-side, silent as need be. They crossed Kilbowie Road, watching for traffic, listening for the...
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Grandma
I saw a old picture today in a black and white frame hung on a wall of me being held in my grandma arms when I was six months old its look like I was...
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Bus Pass [and BPL] Go Off to Camp
Bus Pass and BPL were running out of Enid Blyton ‘Famous Five’ titles to blatantly plagiarise for Bus Pass adventures. Several tricky ones were left...
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Waiting, in Candlelight
Candles flicker many an hour: gales so strong, supply of power broken …
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The Last Night Chapter 12 Behind The White Fire
Chapter 12 Behind The Fire 37 Disembodied floating free against a starless backdrop of infinite emptiness. They gravitated toward one another...
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Shower song
Is that you, whispering in the walls again?
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I lit a thin green candle
I remember when my half-sister came to stay, seven years older than me and full of energy, like a whirlwind dropping into the quiet rhythm of our...
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Weather App. Haiku # 25
After Darragh- calm Looking forward to Christmas Pray that no snow falls! (25 of 25- the Last One)
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The Curse of Eternal life
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Day Dreaming at Night
Just a few desultory observations from recent days. Storm Cuddly caused widespread damage and injury, but one plucky reporter from Bonkers TV stood...
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Rest In Peace, Hazel - Part V
One year ago tonight, I had to watch as your life came to an end. It was sad to witness your demise and I felt so much pain within. You died in 2023...
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Party Election Leaflets : Delivering Economic Stability? By Alfred N.Muggins
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June 2024 Delivering Economic Stability? That wasn’t a phrase he would use to describe any of the recent years. Old wannabe Queen Margaret Thatcher...
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Awake
Almost the worst thing A face that no longer speaks Warfarin and medical wattle One that makes you weep Sloshing around is somebody No need for an...
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The Wizard Detective 2
I tried all afternoon to disconnect myself from the table, but I couldn’t stop it following me around. It went everywhere I went, even when I passed...
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Safe from the cold
I'm sat here on a rainy Sunday afternoon wondering what to do and where this love I had our love has now unravel with time what happen I don't know...
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The Wizard Detective 1
I was assigned Pegarin as my mentor. A long, stra g gly, bearded wizard, who favoured sandals , brightly coloured cardigans and beanie hats over more...
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Parcel for you - Part 42
Vanessa followed her husband into the kitchen and pushed the door closed but not clicked. ‘Hey, stop being so bloody helpful,’ she whispered. Spencer...
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