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A Wind and Wuthering Day
‘Tis Christmas Fayre season, and given the many creatives up here, some of them can be quite good. Some of them are not, but that’s half the fun...
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Weather App. Haiku # 21
A taste of winter S'no joke- a dusting of white Let's hope its gone soon!
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A Good Old Folk Music Night
A Good Old Folk Music Night By Paul McCann The crowd came in early to the pub and slowly the session began with a few people breaking the ice with an...
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So farewell then Steven Wells
Steven (Seething) Wells, (or Swells), was a punk poet, turned journalist, turned comedy writer, turned author, turned cancer-diarist. He was a...
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So farewell then Smiley Culture
The first reggae album I every bought was Tongue in Cheek by Smiley Culture (real name David Victor Emmanuel). The first single from the album,...
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So farewell then Simon Veness
The first in the gang to die. On 20 June 2002, Simon Veness, a 35 year old financial risk manager for the Saudi French Bank , was killed by an Al al-...
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Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber
The world today is split in two … or three... or four... or maybe more, but nonetheless, one must confess, all wage their wars as heretofore. While...
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Musings of a Doppelgänger
“Changelings,” she would call them. Ghastly little things, they were fairies or trolls depending on her mood at the time, but the stories she told...
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Saltburn - A Publishing Journey
Saltburn. I started Saltburn here on ABCTales in the first week of 2020. In February 2025 it’s going to be published. This is the story. I’m usually...
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The Jester’s Requiem: Yorick Unmasked (IP)
"The Jester’s Requiem: Yorick Unmasked" By Imogen Ida Nadir, Vanity Unfair London, 6:45 p.m. Yorick may have once been the court jester of Elsinore,...
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Bus Pass [and BPL] Have Plenty of Fun
BPL was becoming increasingly animated about something called ‘A snow-bomb’. Bus Pass reckoned this is what comes from believing weather reports off...
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Good News Not Locked up
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Imprisoned, Paul was bound. God’s word they could not bind – it quickly spread, and soon was found, believed...
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A Brief Account of My Life
I was born in an excellent hospital in Ashland, Oregon, really rather a model city even then to Eric Lawlor Nelson and Cecelia Rose Howard, that is...
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Curriculum Vitae. Part Two.
l have got some Very confused cats and dogs this morning. The light had not long gone off this morning, late. For me all the hype was yesterday as I...
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I Feel it in My Fingers
It’s thirty years since ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ was released. Bit depressing. Went to a retrospective at the ARC in Peterhead. Even though the...
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The Last Night Chapter Four
Chapter 4 Soft Reality 11 Ariel heaved against Wyatt’s chest, not unlike a drowning victim clawing their way back to the surface, desperate for just...
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Mariska
Knowing she is my favourite actress of all time, when my husband found out infomation about her, this week, he told me about it. Paul found out who...
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A.I.
With tech spiraling out of control, it is difficult for everyone to be safe. Before, shredding our important details was a must, now that makes no...
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Reunited (Dead Reckoning series - Part 35)
In which Samantha struggles to understand Mr. Strine, Josiah and Archibald find themselves back in the saddle and D.S. Stone prays for a breakthrough, or just for something to happen, which is odd because...
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Curriculum Vitae
Mike Tyson will be fighting in a few hours. Mike is 58 years old and the young man he will be against is 27 years old. There is a lot of debate of...
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