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The Cave Of Good Souls

The Cave Of Good Souls By Paul McCann Milly Finchwhizzle lived in a house at the end of the road with her front path flanked by lots of multicoloured...

Thinking about Meliorism

For a few years now in my academic work I’ve been thinking about love. bell hooks suggests that there are ‘not very many public discussions of love [...
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Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table

Who can sleep while the genocide goes on in Gaza? Certainly not me.
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Come, pray …

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Why scorn all thought of one great God? a God who came to earth as babe, and when a man, did good, was kind...

The Cycle of Being

THE CYCLE OF BEING IN A RHYTHMIC MANNER, THIS CONSCIOUS COLLECTIVE QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS: GATHER, CALCULATE, AND STORED, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND...

A NEW

ANEW THE GENTLE RAINS ANNOUNCE THEIR SEASON A NEW, GLISTENING, REFRESHING, AND NOURISHING SEEDS SOWN: AS LIFE BREAKS THROUGH. NOW SPARK LIKE HIDDEN...

LEAVE IT ALONE #2

LEAVE IT ALONE #2 IS IT SO WRONG TO CHOOSE A LIFE? OF INTROSPECTION: A TRAIN TOWARD TANGENT, A PROTOTYPE: SO INCISIVE THAT IT OUTLIVES ITS RIVALS...

My Jewel Box

Teardrop Aquamarine done with 16-year-old Bridesmaid duties, drips elegantly from her chain next to a single Sapphire pendant. Set of three Star...
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The 30th Anniversary Of Graduating From High School

I dropped out of high school in August of 1986. In 1993, that was a mistake that I decided to fix. I was only fifteen years old when I dropped out...

Assisted when dying*, or assisted to (encouraged to?) suicide

How many may wish, but later relief, that there wish had not been granted: Mum-in-law, a hurting, and hard lady angrily hoped she would never be...
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Xion Usland Zero: Chapter 31

Nash was behind Norton, and she was closing in on the Harley. Travis turned in his seat. They were right behind Norton on his tail, and for a second...
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Are you still alive?

“I know I have disappointed you,” says the father. The son avoids his dad’s gaze. He looks at his cell phone. The messages keep pouring in. ‘Where...
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Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising Oh boy do we like to talk about the weather! I always say that in the UK at least we’d be left speechless if the topic of the weather...

The Magic Post Office

The Magic Post Office By Paul McCann The sign outside the post office said , we sell everything so I went in to have a look . After walking through...
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Entry 7 – Under The Skin

Journal of Isla Loren — March 23 Location: the kitchen counter Weather: cool white-grey sky, like static, making everything feel flattened, like I’m...
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The 40th Anniversary Of Chef Boyardee's Death

He was a terrific and skilled Italian chef. Forty years ago, he took his final breath. On June the 21st of 1985, Ettore Boiardi passed away. He was...

Are you happy

Are you happy are you happy years float by since there was you and I are you happy are you happy I like to think there still a little bit of our love...
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The Erosion of Choice

I’m one of an ever-diminishing minority in the UK. Maybe, even, the world. The western world, certainly – if research is to be believed. I don’t have...
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A New Coat Of Paint

A New Coat Of Paint By Paul McCann She lay awake there on the bed thinking about the past and wondering about the future , she could hear the clock...

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