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Runaway Mother chapter 4 part 2
I picked up the phone and pressed *66. The same gruff voice answered the call. ‘Daily Tribune!’ ‘Hi,’ I said changing my voice slightly, ‘this is...
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Runaway Mother chapter 4 part 1
I casually rub my eyes as I open them. I turn my head to the side and look at the clock. Its 7am. I bolt out of the bed and run to Zach’s room,...
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For Sylvia
She fell into a deep hole Full of love And refused all rescue attempts Happy as can be Everything made sense She floated in a sea That never brought...
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Of War and Peace
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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Designed to Erase
Raucous and trembling Fiona embraces a bullying style a storm of wind and rain out of control & during the melee there appears to be a brief...
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Pressures
Who’d be a politician? – reviled, however hard they tend to their constituents’ needs, and pompousness discard. … Would you have stood aright? …
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The Fifth Horseman (2)
Realisation dawned on the other three Horsemen. The world was going to end, and it wouldn't be through Pestilence, War or Famine. "You mean it doesn'...
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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...
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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 ,...
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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 ,...
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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" (short story) Part 1 of 4
“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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