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Shadow

A shadow darkens my wings.. (image from wikimedia)
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Bewitched

Bewitched This magic potion has blindfolded one's discerning taste. But now, it lures you from your favorite place. Is there anyone else here who’s...

Bananas On The Moon

Bananas On The Moon By Paul McCann Jacky Cabama took a banana from out of his back pocket, then he peeled the skin, and then he jumped in the seat of...
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St Gabriels Home Of Champions

St Gabriels Home Of Champions By Paul McCann Ardoyne had many champions in different sports . There were a few tin huts and clubs that had been...

The Postman Of Days Gone Past

The Postman Of Days Gone Past By Paul McCann Before mobile phones and facebook , there were letters that people wrote With greetings cards that were...
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Undercover Agent 5

The next morning Denton removed my sheet to feed me seed cake. I could see in his face that very moment when he realized I’d been there. That I had...
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Undercover Agent 4

It took several months, but eventually the information I’d extracted led to Standfast’s arrest and the wrapping up of many of his ongoing scams. I...
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Ha! Ha! Said The Clown (Dead Reckoning series - Part 7)

In which Archibald is miffed and Josiah is given something to think about!
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Jackie

Jackie was born in West Babylon, New York not far from the birthplaces of Billy Joel and Gerry Rivera. Her mother, Dianne worked as a nurse. Her...

Have a Little Haircut, Have a Little Bob

I read somewhere that places we like going to for a day out are our ‘hygge’ places. Inverurie is one of mine. A lovely drive through yellow and green...
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I don’t want to adjust to bloody algorithms ( A manifesto for the sanctity of human thought)

Computer algorithms work on mathematical probabilities not actualities and therein lies their weakness they incapable of dealing with Actual reality...
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New Directions (19)

A black phone on a cluttered desk started to ring in a friendly warbling tone. I reached out to pick up the handset and woke up relieved I wasn't...
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The best painting ever

Those last words. The man should not have uttered those. If he had just kept quiet. And if this wouldn’t have been possible. Just a greeting. A...

Bedsit Days On The Cliftonville

Bedsit Days On The Cliftonville By Paul McCann Back in 1989 I was looking for a place to live and as a single person it was hard to find a place in...
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Cliftonville Will Have Their Day

Cliftonville Will Have Their Day By Paul McCann Come on Cliftonville , now’s it’s time to play , its your day . Hold up the Irish Cup , don’t let...

Irish Traditions At The Years End

Irish Traditions At The Years End By Paul McCann - When I look back at the things people used to do At the end of the year in Ardoyne and the bone ,...

1:5:1 Quatarr (Part 2)

It was uncanny how similar it was for both of them. They both awoke in their relative sleeping area; they both went outside and they both looked up...

Why do I stay alive?

During my first year of medical school, the Director of Well-Being & Integrative Medicine, Dr. Anne Weisman, gave one lecture that I will never...

Uncomfortably Close to the River

“great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can...

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