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Crisis
Crisis is their chief export Unrest their unloved child The promises they make broken Huddled masses long to be free of them We are such a deafened...
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Since April
The mockingbird on the gutter has been running through his list since before the sun came up. He does not stop for traffic. He does not stop for me...
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McCann case 3
In a world of nothing, the social-work office was the centre. Being a social-work client stripped away humanity. Left a covering layer of dignity,...
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A List
Dogs and their expressions, Holidays in Greece. Taking music lessons, The chance of global peace. Sunlight on a summer dress, Laughing with a friend...
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GHIGAU 30 (PT2)
The Mercedes certainly was a beautiful car, if you liked that sort of thing. It was whisper quiet, with seats that cooled and massaged their...
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GHIGAU 30 (PT1)
Lenny was still towelling his hair dry after a shower, when his phone rang. “Lenny? Sam Tate.” He pulled the towel around his waist and sat on the...
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Things that he took to the Afterlife
Clutching his dog's ashes, his grandfather’s watch chain and a recipe for toad in the hole, he joined the queue for the afterlife. His last few...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie (Slight Return)
You saw him at the foot of the ancestral staircase, not quite see through but wavering in the sunlight heavy with Cairngorm dust, like midges...
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Who is He really?
Do you know who He was? He who hung on a cross? He was good, He was wise – so why bore He such loss? So that you, so that I could have friendship...
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Bo Bo's Milk Run
Bo Bo’s Milk Run By Paul McCann Bo Bo was up early to start his new job as a milkman . He had just picked up the new electric powered milk truck at...
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V. The Dependents - Part Three
She drove to the facility on Saturday morning wearing the dress she'd worn to Miguel's funeral. She didn't realize this until she was in the parking...
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McCann2
Fresh air in The Jolly Jack was for those locals in long coats with their backs to the door. Barry Ryan sneaked a quick look at he pushed through the...
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The Uncivil War
Of course we all know about the English and American civil wars, but conflict occurs at all sorts of levels within society. Politics, court cases,...
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"I Believe"
Frankie Laine: 21st August to 10th September 1953
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When My Daughter Cries
I see the pain behind her eyes, with an avalanche of tears held back by an empty smile. Wandering the ruins of a psyche once owned by the “it's okays...
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St. Joseph
We do not venerate saints, and if we did I should not choose you. It would be a mockery of the man with the most chaste heart, though by rights my...
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V. The Dependents - Part Two
Day one. She did laundry. All of it. Every towel, every sheet, every piece of clothing in the apartment. She stripped the beds and washed the sheets...
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The McCann Case.
He remembered the first time he’d met Ryan. Full of talk about ‘systemic change’ and ‘empowerment’. All that shite about class warfare and the masses...
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Mirror
I accidentally saw myself in a large mirror I was in an elevator I considered seekin a lawyer To prosecute my face Because I have been avoiding...
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The vogue of madness
The curtains of the world are closing The show is almost over The oligarchs are soaked with gold They have us all at their mercy And there's nothing...
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