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Zooming Along

Everyone’s virtually meeting on Zoom In gardens, garages, conservatories, and rooms Gazing screenwards, when others are talking Falling asleep,...
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These Words

These words that trickle down the screen could not care where they have been what role they played in famous verse a speech, a curse or something...
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Foods that make me feel sick.

‘Jam tarts!’ She said, my mother in an excited, breathy voice, her dark eyes wide and shiny, the words hushed as if not permitted to be said out loud...
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'No, i won't be needing breakfast'

‘No, I won’t be needing breakfast’ premier inn, tell me they go that extra mile and i can see that, in the exhausted receptionist, her dead eyes and...
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A hundred moments in autism - The ideas mine

I am always looking for story ideas, constantly on the lookout for an overheard phrase, a character, a situation, anything that triggers an idea. For...
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A hundred moments in autism - Jules Verne’s ducks

I don’t have a special interest, unlike many autists. Well, unless you count Jules Verne. I have read all his books available in English, indeed, the...
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A hundred moments in autism - A walk along the river

It is after five, so there are few people about, just me and my wife, 30 minutes each way, just us and the ducks, and the ducks aren’t doing much. On...
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The Wee Ones - Chapter 12

The Wee Ones A novel By Paul McCann Chapter 12 Teddy’s Return The wee ones came out from their hideaway place under the stairs to see why everything...

The Wee Ones -Chapter 11

​The Wee Ones A novel By Paul McCann Chapter 11 Mercy Of The Marsh The silence of the dawn was cut short by the sound of wolfhounds running over the...

The Wee Ones -Chapter 10

The Wee Ones A novel By Paul McCann Chapter 10 The Colour Of Life A long time ago just as the first flowers bloomed and the rivers began to flow a...

Dover's, The Rolls Royce of Mints.

I love Mariska Hargitay, David Caruso, Vincent D’Onofrio and Matthew Gray Gubler. There are SO many fabulous, actors and actress on telly. Mariska,...
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Secrets to the wind

In the fading light of a decaying port, where the gulls cry secrets to the wind, I can imagine quite easily, the salt-tinged air thick with stories,...
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A hundred moments in autism - Alone

Yes! I am all alone. I enter the office to find nobody else has arrived. I almost skip with joy. PTSD victims often describe the terror when they...
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A hundred moments in autism - Your mother's got a penis

Tory party conference, Blackpool 2004. I was a public affairs officer for a disability charity for ten years, and my role involved attending three...
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A hundred moments in autism - The Whale Café lunch queue

I am standing in the lunch queue at the Whale Café (just the name of the café, I am not a whale). I realise I am standing slightly oddly, with my...
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Akushla Dockery* (Is Vic There?)

What IS he on about? Ahhh, now, wouldn't that be tellin'? Image Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Image creator _SID_ Image Source flickr.com

The Wee Ones - Chapter 9

The Wee Ones A novel By Paul McCann Chapter 9 In The Mist Once upon a time before time had begun there was a mystic place in the heart of the country...

The Wee Ones - Chapter 8

The Wee Ones A novel By Paul McCann Chapter 8 Some Old Tunes Marty took a hike on a fine summers day up the Glen road to the hills by of Pharnell...

The Wee Ones -Chapter 7

The Wee Ones A novel By Paul McCann Chapter 7 The Bonfire In the seventh day of the seventh month about half a mile from the Fairy Glen on the path...

Alien Opportunities Ch. 4 : Suspicions Part 1

Chris talks to the alien female Braidt about humans' work practices and satisfaction at work, and comparisons with alien employment. He considers privately the dangers of humans putting too much faith in alien generosity and employment.

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