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Lying in State? (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 15)
In which Josiah, Archibald and Chantelle pay their respects and get a surprise, for very different reasons.
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lonely moon
sparkling glisten glittering heavens starry skies starry night starry splendour silver moon alone beautiful moon deserted lonely pale curtains open...
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Hawthorn
Anyone know if this IS a Hawthorn?? Anyway, it's the one I can see from the window of The Writer's Den. Image photo taken this morning.
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Goatie 5
All of a sudden your life is not what it was. Your brain does its best to catch up. I don’t know what’s happening. I feel like greeting, or giving...
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Sonnet for Philbey
I used to hold her in one hand...
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Old Age
I thought I'd do some dusting. It keeps the joints from rusting. But the toaster received a crust in, The local paper - just in, And then my bowels...
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Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Three of Three)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/hereafter-holodog-story-part-on... Part Two at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/...
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That long nose!
Starfish Girl suggested that as I had written on Nose, and she on Trunk, I should try one on the famous nose. This is a revision of an old one …
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Excerpt from Sunset (a short story)
I was 14 years old, content with the notion of having no ambition. Life was a flow of empty thoughts that I dragged along behind me. School was a...
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The Picture Ranch 71
'So you don't know anything about what happened?' Eleanor G blew some smoke into the air. The sky was turning as red as her lipstick. 'No more n'you...
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Getting There
Getting There By Paul McCann There’s a beauty here in this place called Ireland , where peaceful paths take you to where spiritual stones stand ,...
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Marks on Spencer parts One and Two
-PART ONE- “Misses Preston, she like tells the class that pies are square.” said Spencer Finch. He was sitting at the dining table, scribbling in a...
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Jack & Ada's Café Restaurant.
I love McDonald’s! That’s an understatement! I could have one every week. Many times, I have. At first, I hated the gherkins in the Big Mac’s, and...
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Flight From Arran
Flight From Arran By Paul McCann Oh Dear Erin of the green fields I look out from here underneath an overcast sky and I see there’s a rainbow outside...
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In The Ruins Of Kilwarra Church
In The Ruins Of Kilwarra Church By Paul McCann . It was Mass time again in the ruins and there was no parking on the street , In the ruins of...
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The Picture Ranch 70
70 up. Reckon I know where I'm going... Does Fisher? Image created by me at canva.com
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Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Two of Three)
Part One at https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/hereafter-holodog-story-part-on... Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Two of Three) The last...
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Welcome To Salthill
Welcome To Salthill By Paul McCann A hand of friendship is reaching out from Salthill to whoever on Earth may come; It doesn’t matter what colour or...
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The Cradle of Life
The child’s cry is not disturbing as plane’s journey begins- leaping into the sky as a silhouette of colourless movement. It passes through episodes...
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