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"Once Upon a Place to Read"
There was a place I loved to go as a child; it held a myriad of stories in worn pages, bound in leather and cloth covers. It beckoned me to come and...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning - Chapter Nine - A Breakthrough
He was a little surprised that things weren’t going quite as smoothly as he’d hoped. He thought he’d start at the top end of the market so his first...
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Britain 2020
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On the beach at Ingoldmells in Lincolnshire, where we went to a caravan, because foreign holidays are cancelled. From ‘Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads...
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Sibelius Lobey (Part Two)
One Saturday in a small town in the summer of 1970. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Sibelius Lobey (Part 1)
One Saturday in one small town, in the summer of 1970. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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BAT OUT OF HELL
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BAT OUT OF HELL By Shane Scott **** Zinkie drove like a bat out of Hell for good reason. Dark beady eyes scanned the road ahead of him and his right...
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The difference
The difference Us, often storm love in true form versus attachment an emotional element in our perception as one has to shun the attachment as...
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The Window Of My Dreams
The Window Of My Dreams By Paul McCann You do the things that others won’t , when others do me wrong you don’t You’re the unseen one in between , the...
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Bang bang bang went the gunpowder
Everything is sad now apart from the happy things so I guess we can concentrate on those. It will all be over soon, a nun tells me, every day when I...
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Cut my hair put on a shirt
You tell me about your previous client a regular, one of your first customers from 1999. You make it clear you don’t often talk about people who come...
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iBreast
iBreast my bra flies parachutes when thrown at your head you catch it howzat! smell the cups for the ghosts of my breasts there was a time when i...
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to Saffron
you enchant me you’ve left me and properly should be past tense but you still enchant me I wish I knew why I am chuckling at you filling our pond...
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still life
still life walking an empty pathway filling poignant silences with nervy nonsenses in a pool of darkness between two lampposts’ yellow light Rebekah...
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Salterhebble
Light at the end of lockdown tunnel
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Leech of the World, Chapter 5, Part 2
It was about time this enigmatic enemy made its appearance as trees fell and the stomping was getting louder and louder. A shiver went through her...
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Shadowlands
My shadow, weight bearer (Own image)
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Still The Same
. Still The Same By Paul McCann Today I thought of you and the things we used to do , what ever happened to all those people that we knew , in my...
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Sugar and Spice
Once upon a time, I had a massive crush on Danelaw Smith. I was twelve, and he must have been about twenty-something. And he wasn’t exactly all that...
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coming of age in Oxford
February gives way to March slinking off with withered memories of childhood fun, schoolboy ambitions, hope-fuelled dreams adulthood lurks at the...
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