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The Book: Chapter 32
Alice and Mick sat at the dining table, still cluttered with cereal bowls from breakfast, but neither of them cared. The table, usually reserved for...
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A Straight Talking Man
A Straight Talking Man By Paul McCann See Sorrowful Jones is who I am but nobody really gives a damn . Life’s hard but I’m doing what I can I’m a...
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Finding New Ways To Live
Finding New Ways To Live By Paul McCann It was Christmas Eve and Sean was looking forward to driving back home to be with his family . He had just...
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Bliss
Snuggling down in a cocoon of bliss, The spell was broken by an impending piss. Like life itself, It was hit and miss.
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The Dictator
The Dictator People who labelled me vulgar are dead. People who sneer at gold don’t have any. So flexible: gold taps, watches, bullion. Always have...
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The Book: Chapter 31
I see them. I burn. She dares defile my pages with her wretched scrawl. The deranged human thinks she is a match for me. Me? She believes her ink can...
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Spring-Shine!
Celandines sparkle when the sun shines …
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Mary, Mary. Part One.
I remember when I worked with Margaret, she was a lot older than us, she was single and had two cats, that she called, “My girls.” She was devastated...
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The Lonely Goose on The Durme
I was planning to write about this bird, the new IP seemed a good place for it. . . . pic taken by me
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Downhill With No Brakes
Downhill With No Brakes By Paul McCann In the city of heartaches a scream just seconds away , down to the traffic lights that changed from red to...
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The Book: Chapter 30
They sat at Alice’s kitchen table with the book. After the shock of the night before, they’d driven to her house because neither of them wanted to be...
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Time-space continuum
hum, humm, hummm hum, humm, hummm a hymn to O, O, oh oh dear! My god humm, ummm, OM
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Do you think i get to bed before midnight
Do you think I get to bed before midnight I wonder what keep us up at night we all know it is our I pads, our computer screens our phones but I just...
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Daddy's Little Bird
Does a traumatised girl need medical help, or a priest and an exorcism?
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Spotlighting - Part 4 of 4
INTERCOM: Regarding the case itself, let’s see…we were looking for clothing preferences. Looks like that was picked up on pretty quickly, but pace...
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Spotlighting - Part 3 of 4
LUCAS: Did I do good that time? MITCH: Are you kidding? You hesitated again. When I say hit the button, you hit the button . LUCAS: You didn’t do the...
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The Book: Chapter 29
The next thing to invade the room was the whispering. It wasn’t words, not as they knew them but an ancient, demonic chant, somewhere beyond...
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New Directions (30) continued
As I walked back to the station I watched the cloud bank muscle in. By the time I reached the station it was after 4pm and getting prematurely dark,...
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Running Away To Find A New Reason To Live
Running Away To Find A New Reason To Live By Paul McCann Alice was a loner at school . She didn’t mix very well the other students . The teachers...
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Subjects 1.5
Titus weighed his options, surely Marian could figure out what she needed without him. And It’s not as though his Affliction bothered him as much as...
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