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Runaway mother chapter 3 part 2

‘Ok, so were looking for gold and money, ok?’ ‘Where are we looking?’ he asks. ‘That’s a very good question!’ ‘Why not start in her bedroom!’ Zach...
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Runaway Mother chapter 3 part 1

As I arrive at the school, five minutes early no less, I stare into space and can’t help but wonder if this is going to be my life from now on. The...
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Halloween's Coming

(1972) The grotesque pointed teeth and eye sockets were slowly taking shape as Dad carved carefully at the turnip, scattering pieces of it all over...
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The Second Husband (part 2 of 2)

[This is part 2 of this story: read part 1 here ] It was, of course, Tom's presence that had contributed to the cramped situation, but it wasn't the...
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The Second Husband (part 1 of 2)

Given our cramped living circumstances, it was something of a surprise to return from afternoon teaching to find an unfamiliar man sat on the sofa...
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A Tale from Dark Woods

A story for Halloween A Tale from Dark Woods It was on the darkest of nights in October that we got together. We had been gathering like this for...

Halloween Night

Halloween Night By Paul McCann . Halloween is when I walked unseen around the street , knocking doors dressed up like a ghost underneath a sheet ,...

A Perfect Feeling

A Perfect Feeling By Paul McCann I’ve got a feeling deep inside of me that lifts me every night and day the love I have for you will never go away ,...

Time.

Time. Seriously, England needs to Stop messing about with the time. It as a serious affect on my dyslexia, I don’t know if I’m coming or going. My...
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Tights.

Around this time of year, I always stock up on buying tights, whenever I see them in a shop that sells them. I have learnt to only buy extra-large; I...
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My Least Favourite Grave

I am trying to write a ghost story every month. Here is a grisly one for Halloween.
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The Fifth Horseman (1)

I was busy processing the latest numbers on impossible deaths when a figure appeared beside me, as if had magicked himself there, which of course he...
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"Spirt of Sleepy Hollow on All Hallows Eve" (a short tale) Part 1

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (The tale of the Headless Horseman) is a ghost story set in Upstate New York in the town of Sleepy Hollow. It was written in 1820 by Washington Irving who lived there. The story has been depicted in plays, movies and even in Disney’s memorable cartoon form. I had visited this area when I was in New York and during Halloween the town does do justice to its legend...this sparked a story for me and what follows is a short story spun from that visit...I hope you enjoy it.
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Runaway Mother chapter 2

‘Man,’ I said to my sister Mary when I finally made it downstairs desperate for some coffee, ‘he is clingy!’ I was of course referring to Ethan who...
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Demons shudder

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] People laugh at fear of sprites, ghosts or ghouls, and all such frights … do they ever really wonder is...

Heels on the Trail

No longer can he see any imprints of small feet that sought frogs in mud-hole spaces the man remembers as his own steps retrace those of a blond blue...

A flat day

It was going to be one of those flat days nothing special to do no project to fill the hours that stretched before her Pat sighed and poured her...
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Alien Evangelist 2

"I think the Lord is calling us to go to Planet Thaarg," said Neville, to everyone who was sitting in the lounge, gazing at the stars that they were...

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