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The lies we tell our children
The lies we tell our children Jennifer Pickup, 05.09.2023 Honesty is the best policy, Isn’t that what we teach? Then why do parents find it so hard...
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Mixed Up Seats
Mixed Up Seats By Paul McCann We’ve got two tickets for the show , But there nowhere for us to go . Theres a new venue that they found So now we have...
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Work On Site
Work On Site By Paul McCann Quarry boys make some noise , blasting rocks as the clocks tick away . Isolate on the date , when and where who is there...
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Silas Nash Book !: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 31.
‘You see our predicament, Mr Finch?’ Nash said. Nash and Brown were on their third cup of coffee at their third house that day. The children were...
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California Dreaming
The other night I woke up in a lather. Like all people woke, you might joke, but this was serious. A terrible bowel churning nightmare, in which I...
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The Gravel Pitch
The Gravel Pitch By Paul McCann The Gravel Pitch - By Paul McCann . Looking back now I see how the years have flown but I remember that gravel pitch...
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1 Prospero Vint
Probably not going to amount to anything, ever, but ... Well here it is anyway. Image author's own created on canva from image with appropriate licence.
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Birdsong: Listen!
[Afternoon on the hill] Burbling song … [Evening in the garden] Rich, deep trilling …
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Silas Nash Book !: Hush Hush Honeysuckle. Chapter Thirty B
Nash and Renshaw avoided contaminating evidence in Amanda Keys’ kitchen. Nash felt ill. This one was on him, and he felt the burden of guilt pressing...
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Another World
It’s getting dark down and a fox sniffs a picture of stillness a bear lurches down the trail both cubs glued to her side her breath like a torch for...
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Time Is Passing
A gathering of colours in evening attire contrast twilight red and landscape green- azure blue with baby skies & heading into day’s lesser light...
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LOUIE
Louie While still a teenager myself I was paid to look after three young children while their parents – both directors of an independent family bank...
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Stirring Forest
As Autumn turns to Winter's chill, forest hunger draws us where fallen dead leaves scrunch beneath boots. Whispered breath of timid deer in brushwood...
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Silas Nash Book 1: Hush GHush Honeysuckle: Chapter Thrity
Nash knew that look. Jessica might as well have been standing with her hand on her hips, tapping her foot with impatience. She didn’t adopt the...
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Extra in a B-Movie Western
They say that God looks like John Wayne...
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Its Already Been Sent
Its Already Been Sent By Paul McCann I sent it to you in a thought , from deep in my soul I can’t keep it to myself , the love for you I hold I sent...
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Strolling Beachside
Erosian used so many ebb tides to erase the part of land children used – where toes swallowed in the sand and a gush of chilled water swept over your...
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The Feast Problem (2)
The porridge crew, myself, Alun, Gaving Hestfuhrer and the mainland knnning took our seats. Igor, the boatman’s hunchback assistant had kindly agreed...
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The Feast Problem (1)
I was woken at 6.30 one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and hurried downstairs to find Alun in an excited mood. “It’s the...
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Disguising Your Windups
Disguising Your Windups By Paul McCann You will never hear a windup when the chainsaw’s buzzing round and the bees are humming in their hive a funny...
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