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Football Crazy Days

Football Crazy Days By Paul McCann . We all walked up the Ardoyne Road with our boots hanging around our neck . We were all football crazy so...
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The puzzle of shadows

Late afternoon sunshine. Standing side by side with 4 year-old. ‘My shadow is longer than yours, isn’t it? Is your shadow taller than you?’ She...
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Poem of the week

No Fond Farewell

Another funeral. Image is mine
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10.2 Black Orchid

“Asmr! I don’t want to annoy this good lady. She is a grandmother. Why now? I think I can call you mad.” “Damn well I am! How the hell can you come...

A Little Child

Do you have a wish little one- it’s mommy & daddy holding you in their arms loving & kissing you. Would you like to go for a little hike on a...

Deep-seated contentment.

I conclude that the deep-seated contentment that invades one’s being unexpectedly from time to time (as happens to me not infrequently) cannot be...

Guitar Man

I have a guitar which I like to strum. If I'm feeling good, I may even hum. It's less disruptive than banging a drum. And a great deal better than...
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Devil's Advocate (Part Three of Three)

Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/devils-advocate Part Two at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/devils-advocate-part-two-...
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Friendship Trees

Friendship Trees By Paul McCann The seeds some of our friendships are planted firmly in the ground where roots are grown , while other seeds are...
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10.1 Black Orchid

2008 was a wet year and a good year for most of us. I fixed an air-condition unit in my cubicle last year but not too satisfied with it because it...
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Girl in a green dress.

This evening I address everyone from the safely of the pages of a tender tale told by a conflicted man. I am not that man, but his tale of garbage...
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Story of the week

Love Story 2

I wasn’t fully Baptised in the Spirit. Which to some church members meant I wasn’t baptised. Our prayer leader, Colin, spoke in tongues. So I was...
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We have three little trees …

We have a little yew tree – dropped by a bird? – it grew: we moved it to a safer spot, and told the girls that yew has leaves and berries poisonous – the’re for …
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Private Psychiatric Hospital

At last 100% the right medicines after more than 20 years state care, the food is good too but they are very strict on hospital rules, and...

9.1 On the Rock

Sabo popped at the door to my kitchen quarter office, “Kawla! Do you mind if I cut some branches from the drumstick tree hanging over the roof?...

The foxes are at it again.

Today’s rawky afternoon has given way at last to an evening sky of pink and baby blue. The mephitic vapours that hung around the trees all afternoon...
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The Provincial Little Caterpillar

The caterpillar hatched from his tiny yellow egg, which was on the underside of a large leaf. He hatched at exactly a millimeter long, and I’m...
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Then, My Village

Then, My Village The pathos of a passerby in his call at a pitch high scared by his loneliness, and beasts howling in the darkness in the late hour...
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