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There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis (Dead Reckoning series - Part 30)

In which D.S. Stone muses about the identity of their mystery man in the reservoir, D.I. Wood pines for the Caribbean, Archibald longs for an unhealthy lunch and Josiah may come to regret his!
William Dix.

I remember watching Dangerous Liaisons, with John Malkovich in it, he was SO good in it for years after, I still hated him, and was unable to watch...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Mother's Day
Another extract from the final draft (still in progress) of my memoir of my time as my mother's full-time carer at the end of her life. So March wore...
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"9,V.F.N.10.E.X"
Whilst ‘taking of a toast and tea’ in the kitchen this morning, noticed two things; 1. What a difference a white door makes to the light. 2. That I...
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flow of time
Somehow the wind. somehow the sun somehow the hum of footsteps as they cross the morning light; somehow the feel of light as it crosses my heart into...
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parallel
parallel,; your life, my life, in parallel following the same sigh, the same breath, the same thought, the same dream; a pause; a hesitation when I...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - A day out
I've almost completed the final draft of 'Gift' - my memoir about my time spent as my mother's full-time carer during the final months of her life...
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Seems Like Only Yesterday

Seems Like Only Yesterday By Paul McCann As he lay in bed with a syringe driver feeding the tube that went into his vein, he started to think about...
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Thank God For Christmas

Thank God For Christmas By Paul McCann So war came just before Christmas and they were told to leave their homes with only what they could carry ...
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Child of the forest
My dream of living near the forest finally came true last month when I moved into my new home. Yet, it didn’t take long to discover a few unexpected...
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Splintered Souls
Splintered Souls By Curtis Ray Jones Page 1 At first glance no one would think Chase Gillette was a haunted man. He was only twenty-five, lived right...
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Mad Girl’s Heart Song

Mad Girl’s Heart Song (A Villanelle, based on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’) Jennifer Pickup, 26.09.2024 for World Mental Health Day 10.10...
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Day to Day

From day to day and every day And Yesterday and never day To stay to say to go away And yet to choose to stay today To come and go and never know The...
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Come Home To Christmas

Come Home To Christmas By Paul McCann It was getting close to Christmas and Gabriel was looking for ward to driving back to his hometown to spend...
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Reclaiming the Kitchen
It’s simply not possible to light candles, play Audible and cook, in manner of domestic goddess, when one’s kitchen is in a guddle. Especially when...
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Hurricane Milton- the aftermath
Hurricane Milton- the aftermath It is 2:30 A.M. on Thursday, the tenth of October, in the year of our Lord 2024. I think it was the relative quiet...
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Wee Plastic Hats Off to Ole Kirk Christiansen!

A small box of Lego is just enough to give your kids a treat.
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 20
Martha hadn’t wanted to leave Perfidia behind but time was growing shorter and they needed every second of it to prepare the room. So she made the...
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Hurricane Milton approaches land
Milton approaches landfall It is Wednesday, the ninth of October in the year of our Lord, 2024. As dawn rose over the eastern sky, the winds had just...
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Habit Tracking - It's a Thing
I had never heard of the concept of habit-tracking until yet another YouTube algorithm brought it to my attention. Unlike quite a lot on YouTube,...
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