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Broken Ability Part 1-7

“Letum!” “Huh?” I started, coming out of my thoughts. “What’re you still doing here?” Rose asked, following my eyes. I looked away from the stage and...

Rest In Peace, Hazel - Part II

Some Chihuahua dogs are hateful but you weren't hateful in the least. You were a very special dog and it's painful because you're deceased. Just one...
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Culver

Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp.

Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp. Reeva Steenkamp Foundation, they aim to be Reeva’s Voice. The Foundation continues her work in educating and empowering...
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Pick Up The Pieces (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 49)

The Undertakers are 'under starter's orders', as are the Detectives. With everyone in their respective vehicles, we should be off and running now, shouldn't we?
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The River

An older poem I've dusted off; having reflected on what Jack commented on my last poem. It is the age old question - what constitutes us? This poem comes as close to the Buddhist view as I can manage; and of course there may be another truth. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

1:4:7 Solutions (Part 2)

They found the kitchenette’s fabricator and ordered two cups of tea with a small pitcher of milk and a saucer of sugar. They grabbed one of the two...

Mr Pinkertons Garden Of Visions

Mr Pinkertons Garden Of Visions By Paul McCann Buttermilk and honey dewdrops glistened in the morning sun on the leaves of spearmint trees . The...
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Bermuda Dreams Chapter 2 Part 2-2

"Cool. Well, gotta get goin'. Have to meet a protegee in Hamilton. But we'll train with my jet ski soon. It's the best there is, even comes with...

Bermuda Dreams Chapter 2 Part 1-2

Chapter Two "Wake up...wake up fool!" Tom awoke to find Big Roy hollering at him from a seat across an aisleway. He felt a bump of turbulence, pops...

Bermuda Dreams Chapter 1

Chapter One Tom dreamt of golden triangles. They flew at him in flashy arrays, lighthouses at their tips, framing seas below. He didn't want to be...
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Things Fall Apart

A follow on from my previous poem 'Slipping into the Water', an attempt to put the condition into words. (Image is courtersy of Pixabay)
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Untitled at the moment. Chapter 1 maybe?

His heart is clawing against his ribcage, trying to find a gap big enough to break through. The pain in the depth of his neck suggests he has slept...

An outrageously slow and peaceful homage to the stone age, sotto voce

A time before, when slings and arrows and rockets and missiles made fortunes for a few. Even, tribal wars were unheard of. Silence, save for the...

Expands

The landscape expands, rushing over undulating roads it is hard to appreciate the shades of blue, the sparrows silhouettes, the tree's claws grasping...
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This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B

Stand aside Tristram Shandy, this is The Life and Opinions of Turlough Ó Maoláin, Gentleman. Compiled during the late part of December 2023, at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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I MADE HIM A BEGGER

The car turned the corner and I could see an old man with a long beard , bare bodied perched on the median seperating the two lanes on the highway...

Neuschwanstein Castle

(2015) I never knew about this castle until 1992, though I had seen it on telly many times without realising. In 1992 I took three weeks or so...
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The Darlings

The Darlings So, I was seeing this woman for a while who was in and out of the music business. She once married a man who was in a band who will...
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Story of the week

Cernunnos

He wasn’t really a Reverend; he was a god- botherer who could out-bible any trained-up taker of the cloth. We just called him that. I found him...
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