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Chapter 2 - Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 2 A Knock On The Door Doris sat in her bed looking at some old photos in her albums . She loved...

Chapter 1 - Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 1 The Shepherds Ghost There was shepherd who lived on a large property in Mossy Valley . He looked...

Cold Feet in Germany

A long cold journey early in the year
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Christmas in Kyiv

Christmas in Kiev A short break in the nightly bombardment – peace of sorts. A woman searches in the only corner left of her destroyed bedroom open...
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Oluwafemi Olaseni.

We just don’t know the twist and turn of our life, and it is just as well! He is very famous in England and in the West, he may have left on a high...
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The Other Side of the Attic Window II

The twins stopped by with a question. “How’d you become a ghost?” “It was my turn,” I said. Halloween being over, I thought I’d have more me time...
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2026

A new year, a new leaf, a new calendar: we are here, time is brief – how and whither shall we wander? …
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 10 *Rewrite*

the door to the pub is closed it’s already midday I keep walking never breaking stride once more around the block pretend to the world that I’m just...

ballad of storms of silence

listen to the roar of storms listen to the roar of gales! listen to the hymns of silence do you hear the song of songs? ~ hear the gentle silence of...

Smoke-Free For Two Years

Something wonderful happened two years ago. On January 1, 2024, I gave up all forms of tobacco. I've been smoke-free two years today. I decided to...

Mother Of Cleansing

Mother Of Cleansing By Paul McCann Mother of cleansing help us to wash the black marks from our face of tears we have cried in years of disgrace ...
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GOODBYE, SOUL BROTHER -1 Cont

Lef rye lef hada lef rye lef out of the major’s (Zev’s) quarters, back into the boonies. A female FuPeg bows. Tiny creatures. The males are small...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 9 *Rewrite*

still editing. not even sure if I have the mental energy to even try and submit another manuscript. the eternal nightmare of the writer. ugh. happy new year

All the best...

Not such a happy new year, really...
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Winter Landscapes

Dark brown fringe upon blue sky …
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"Of all the trees..."

I thought the Holly and the Ivy might have something to say at this time of year?
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Bron-1

Chapter 1 She hit the surface of the water, arms and legs spreadeagled, with a crash rather than a splash. “MAM!” she shrieked. The cold hit her like...
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Sub Rosa

not wholly autobiographical.
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On the Patch Where the Strawberries Grew

Remembering my own Angel of the North, my Sunderland grandmother Grace Erskine, on her special night of the year.
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