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This one's from my 1968 Notebook - actually written in 1970. I was 20 and into Astrology. Did you know? Did you know that Cancer was compatible with...

Don't lose your cheer

Have you lost your cheer? Oh dear! Because of what you think is near? Well I bear good news that you must hear, and I aim to make it very clear. That...
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Deliverance

A tale of recklessness and good fortune.

Doors Closing

An old one - from Uni days (1999), before my Irish lover sent flowers and changed my life, forever. DOORS CLOSING How often has the door closed on...
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Poem of the week

What a Waist

Eating food is a reason to be cheerful, and the pleasure I get from it is something I’ve attempted to celebrate here in the style of Ian Dury and The Blockheads. If you know their work you could perhaps sing along with my words.
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Bron-29

Continued from Chapter 28: Bron-28 | ABCtales Bron cycled slowly along New Birch Moor Lane, towards the depot. She’ managed to get through on the...

Mother Of Sight

Mother Of Sight by Paul McCann Mother Of sight you helped me to see things I couldn’t understand . Mother Of sight I was blinded by grief until you...

The Measurement Of Where I Am

The Measurement Of Where I Am by Paul McCann Long of exile , short of breath wondering how much time is left . Minutes are like miles away and yet I...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (17)

Part 16 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-16 The stone walls of St Bridget’s stand in silence as though stoical...
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Being Cheerful because ….

Signs of spring, beauty emerging … but … so … and still be cheered by …
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I. Deep Storage - Part Three

The fingers were the wrong temperature. A living hand would have been warmer. A dead hand would have been colder. This hand was the temperature of...
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Queegian Rant

Queegian Rant After watching a two-hour verbal rant by the President of the United States, threatening to destroy Iran’s bridges, power plants and...
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Tanka

My image
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I Wonder...

the essence of a word an idea, an expanse of something something I cant quite grasp I cant quite remember if it was ever a truth, an ultimate answer...
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Herefordshires’s Hampton Court/Castle Gardens

Look down from the tower and so let your gaze see those who are struggling their way through the maze. Once noticed the panic of a troubled dear...
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Was Danielle Steel in Steely Dan?

Marching on together through the latter sixteen days of the month at a steady rate of one hundred words per day.
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The Tiny-Handed Dwarf: Jebediah Knickerthorpe's Unexpected Gift

To compensate for their short stature, dwarfs were gifted with large hands and feet. (They also had the ability to grow long, flowing beards within a...

The Waste of Space

After a heave, there appeared a bloater. Wobbling around, a spectacular floater! Any bigger, and I could install a motor. If it stood for Parliament...
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I. Deep Storage - Part Two

Friday. Three-ten. She told the supervisor she needed to check a lot number in Section E for a discrepancy on her cataloguing sheet. He was eating an...

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