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Hillsborough
Be damned your Maxwell and Murdochs Poodle politicians and Tory scum On a private-public leash Hauled o’er the Lepping Lane The smashed road of David...
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Parcel for you...Part 23
Spencer was standing at the window as the car pulled up outside. He rushed to the front and stood at the threshold, rubbing his hands and watching...
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Positive Thinking
If you're feeling low, say "ho ho ho". Down in the mouth? Go cat go. Pissed on your trousers? Go with the flow. Kicked in the goolies? You'll enjoy a...
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In This House IV: Final Chapter
It’s funny, really, the fight or flight response. Once it is triggered and the adrenaline is dumped into the bloodstream in a last ditch effort to...
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Weather App Haiku
Sun, wind and raining Spring is here in Aberdeen The sky is still blue
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Catching Spricks By The Mill
Catching Spricks By The Mill ‘By Paul McCann Catching spricks in the Milley Dam was like going on a safari adventure you bring buckets and glass jars...
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Where is Everybody?
Well, where? Image created by me at canva.com
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Door To Door Collectors
Door To Door Collectors By Paul McCann The people who came with a knock on the door collecting money as they went past like the men’s confraternity...
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When The Coal Truck Came To Town
When The Coal Truck Came To Town By Paul McCann When the coal men came into the street the word went out to get ready for a snatch . A few lads kept...
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In This House III
In the darkness, she dreamt. She saw the village in which she lived. Elm trees, which lined the roadside of her culdesac, shed their leaves, floating...
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Homeward Bound
Twenty years back Staggering homeward Several pints down A session with Kenny Which was far too many Whisky flask in my jacket Thinking I could hack...
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This is Poetry?
One of the first few sonnets I ever wrote... I took a word out of it today.
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Who's Aldo? (my new novel) audio extract
Hey everyone, My latest novel Who's Aldo? has been receiving great reviews in the media. And received a brilliant review from ABC Tales. I wanted to...
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The Gift Of Winter
The Gift Of Winter By Paul McCann When winter came men were seen wearing donkey jackets and women wore their scarfs . Children had mitten and gloves...
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The Winter Child
The Winter Child By Paul McCann As the rain turned to sleet , smoke poured from the chimney pots on top of the little houses around the streets ...
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1:4:10 Crait (Part 4)
Simplicity was almost exactly as she remembered. Although her time on the ship had been short, its layout and the events that occurred within were...
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The escape artist
Budgies don't sing but a happily chit-chatter hopping around all the time chatting pleasantly very much like sparrows. A brain as big as half a pea a...
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Inside one of the bacteria that have a compass and a motor …
Machines, machines, machines galore: molecular machines to … Three-dimensional chemical complexity, beautiful structure, amazing activity!
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Tautology in science fiction
Fallout and halo both have the same themes that says that rigid ideological systems always clash with one another The key individuals in both stories...
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Strange Days
This is a piece that didn't make it into the very unreliable Berlin memoir 'In the Mouth of the Bear'. (Available on the 'Zon, in big writing). It's just descriptive, it's not really about anything, so I left it out.
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