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May Mornings
May Mornings By Paul McCann One morning in May the blue sky had left Belfast and grey clouds hung themselves to an empty sky . The rain poured down...
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Victory In Your Name
Victory In Your Name By Paul McCann The prayers that You prayed in Gethsemane , You said for me , You are my claim to fame Jesus I’m so glad You came...
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On the Night Tube Home
Grace stood at the far end of the tube platform and waited for her train to arrive. As she had walked down the last flight of stairs and out onto the...
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Alone
As headlights illuminated the house, a man could have been seen watching from behind the living room curtain. Lucy did not notice. She parked on the...
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Not dark yet
Stories from the road
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Mrs Murphy And God
After her husband died Mrs Murphy lived alone in her little tow bedroom house in the suburbs . She never went out and had little contact with the...
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Irish Emon
It was late in 88 when I first met Emon in Bishopsgate . Its no me backwards he said . Emon was just like that . The hard times had brought us...
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Frank And Me
Frank And Me Shortm Story bn Paul McCann . It was just before noon when the car arrived . At first I never heard the knock Because I had the TV...
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The biggest fight ever
It was the biggest fight ever, unless you count the war we'd been engaged in for the past four years. And it was the most pointless fight ever,...
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Dancing To A Different Tune
When friendships are lost is there a moment when distance hides behind moon clouding what we once knew? Or maybe an impulse of memories have become...
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An analysis of the juxtaposition of authority and anarchy in Jean Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terribles (1929) and Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961).
Both Jean Cocteau and Muriel Spark are renowned for their crafting of intricate, confined settings in their novels; settings which often trap their...
The Man who was Radio Static pt 2
Act Three The next day. Morning light streams into the kitchen. Maria Autre is sitting at the table, in the chair which is normally occupied by Jim...
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The Man who was Radio Static pt 1
A bright and frosty winter morning in Queens, New York. Maria, a petite, mousy, middle-aged woman (and native of Queens) with straw-like, unwashed,...
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Free From Fear
As he lay in a hospital bed he tried to recall the events that took place the week before . It all seemed so vague now . It was as if he had blocked...
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The Opposite Effect (3)
I drove home and proceeded to get drunk. Initially I began to feel a bit better, not much, but a little. I realized how asinine it was to go to...
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The Opposite Effect (2)
I felt that I really needed a drink, and I knew where to get a drink. I knew that in Nutsfart’s office, he had a bottle and that was what I felt I...
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The Opposite Effect (1)
The Opposite Effect We all of us fantasize, I think. I believe that it’s a natural and normal thing to wish for things to be better, even impossibly...
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Ullswater (haiku)
Many thanks Kevin (Parson Thru) for reminding me I had this.
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