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Bike Ride To Paris
. Bike Ride To Paris By Paul McCann , Along the streets and over the mountains they pedal on between gauntlets of applauding spectators in the Tour...
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New Orleans 2005
New Orleans 2005 By Paul McCann' On a month they call September in the year 2005 . The people of New Orleans did all they could to stay alive . On...
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g81
I lived in the armpits of the world, but it wasn’t like me to leave work early. I’d a good job at Boots the Chemist, with prospects, but my skin...
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and boats
You are sitting on your patio it is today again. The morning after a big decision is hard. You have to just sit there. On your kitchen noticeboard is...
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Rainy night empty hand
Heavy breathing underneath a zipped up anorak it is raining and I am on my favourite street. You are a different person on the way home. An entirely...
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My eggshell head
The cafe has a downstairs that not a lot of people know about because it feels like you're going down into the stockroom. I once had a relationship...
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Impressing Miss Axelrod

Ahh...nostalgia. It's always the music, isn't it? Image author's own, as for its subject, Go Ask Alice...
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A pilgrimage of sorts

Just as you round the corner on the ascent of Mount Pleasant, the huge, concrete circle comes into view. She is crowned with barbs, crouched and...
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Pictures On A Wall In Israel
Pictures On A Wall In Israel By Paul McCann . My friend was an Arab before the wall went up . He’s still an Arab but we don’t see each other at all...
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Life In A Small World
Life In A Small World By Paul McCann Black skin . White skin . Yellow skin. Red . God knows how many prayers are said . Muslim . Hindu . Christian ...
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Black Weekend February 2009
Black Weekend In February 2009 By Paul McCann . On a black weekend in February , nobody could have stopped what came to be . All across Victoria bush...
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Craven Gets Flashed VIII

Delaney’s was sprinkled with its usual mid day barstool denizens: Mel, Joey, and an assortment of guys who just got fired. “What can I get you ladies...
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Golden Memories: Sundries
It's always fascinated me how certain experiences are fixed in memory, while many others are lost. In some obvious cases the reason appears to be...
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The Vaccine Hunger Games
The Vaccine Hunger Games In the year of our Lord, 2020, the Earth was stricken with a great plague called “The Corona Virus.” Originating in Wuhan,...
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A Bit of A Do

A kerfuffle in my hometown. (Image Attribution: Geoff Royle)
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Corinne of the School Disco

Steve “Stevo” Mason looked at his watch. He was always checking the time like it might go faster through the power of his gaze. He knew the bell was...
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The Child Inside

Sometimes life doesn't give us those things we'd hoped for; sometimes those things are small, sometimes they are big; and sometimes poetry is the only way to do justice to those feelings which emerge from it all. (Wikimedia image copyright)
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Steinmätscher (Muddier of Stones)

I learned something from @LevParikian (Twitter's premier Twitcher if you're interested in birds) this morning. So, as is my wont, I went off on a tangent and wrote this. Image licence is CC-BY SA2.5 source Wikipedia photographer Andreas Trepte.
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Reflection On War And Peace
Paul F. McCann REFLECTION ON WAR AND PEACE War A Conflict – Fight Killing – Peace Keeping – Protecting Insurgence -Unrest – Surrender -Truce Healing...
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