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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning-Chapter Fifteen: Inception - Part Two
Then there was Heather. Oh Heather, Heather, Heather. He still had a soft spot for Heather. It was the strangest story. Or perhaps it was normal for...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning-Chapter Fifteen: Inception - Part One
By anyone’s standards he’d been a late starter. He personally blamed it on going to a single-sex boys school, but you also probably need to remember...
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The Vampire Walk
The Vampire Walk Summer of 1981 the year we all left school and went our separate ways, a memorable summer for many reasons, lots of good music, end...
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Yarc and the culture of boot licking
YARC and the culture of boot looking A friend of ours, in the Spring Run Complex in Florida from Massachusetts, gave me this pearl of an acronym. “...
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Wars
. Paul F. McCann WARS There are wars against terror and wars against want. The wars against hunger we need to revamp. There are wars that divide us...
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Triad Of Sorry
, Paul F. McCann TRIAD OF SORRY An Officer’s Sorry On behalf of all those under my command, I am writing this so you may understand, It’s much easier...
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An Empty Shoe
. Paul F. McCann AN EMPTY SHOE When I found a dead man’s shoe I thought which side was he on. The town was burnt down and all of its occupants had...
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First Date 1955
The first time I dated Irene sure felt good to be old enough and allowed to dance close after all the staying apart rules with arms extended as feet...
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Blues For David.
When I lost my son to cancer at eighteen years I wrote these blues. I played guitar, and my cousins son played the mouth organ and sang, we threw in...
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My Crazy Diamond
On the annivesary of my sons death to cancer at eighteen years of age I wrote this song at two in the morning. I emailed it to Davids friend Dooley,...
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Do But Themselves Confound - Episode 8
In which Aefelthrith sulks and Gwladys sets her straight.
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The Legions
Its funny that I am writing my own story after all this time, it is a bit like the one entitled 'They Wait', which I edited for my uncle way back in...
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Cautionary Pictures 3)
Easy to break, hard to mend, quarrel begun hard to end.
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Dante Alighieri – Tanto gentil e tanto onesta pare (translated)
A sonnet by Dante Alighieri translated from Italian.
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Disenchantment 20
Yeah, it's difficult to jump in in the middle of story, but hey, read abot ancient Greek calendars and lunar cycles!!! :)
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A pinch of salt.
I'm in the habit of calling out the extent of the force, form and extent of our love. I do so because I find it on the street corners of Marvellous...
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Where Rivers Run
Where Rivers Run By Paul McCann . Sheet rain Fell down again , On the other side of the road Gardens were watered and on houses blocked gutters had...
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What's In The Wind
What's In The Wind By Paul McCann How does one spell wind . W is for the whoosh it makes and I is for what's incoming with it . N is the nature of...
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Coming Out Of The Cave
- Coming Out Of The Cave - By Paul McCann (There are 10 words in the first line of the poem ) There was a man who lived in a dark cave (In the first...
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