Cherrypicked stories
Big Data
Until recently, I wasn’t a big ‘App’ user on my mobile phone. I didn’t see the point of them, other than Mah Jong or Scrabble. Plus, more often than...
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Sean Happens 8
'He dropped me off around the corner from my house. I stood holding open the car door to prolong the moment, but I couldn’t think of anything good...
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Orkil the Poet On His Landing In Skye
Strange the ways of sea going men upon landing, hopes sharp as steel we brought to the natives, fierce the feeling on new land to win beneath our...
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Have you ever had a pair of pants?
Have you ever had a pair of pants? Underpants that is A pair that don’t wear out at all But keep their youthful looks, endure For ten or fifteen...
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STILL LIFE
My three objects pictured as a (sort of) still life
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Sean Happens 7
We went to see The Poseidon Adventure at the local Odeon. The Spider paid me in and put an arm around my shoulder. We sat in the back seats. His feet...
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A Walk With The Wild Ones
Just a short distance to the east of Estero, on Corkscrew Road, you can find a world of adventure in a natural setting. The Corkscrew Nature Preserve...
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Connecting With Trees
To look back on sweet but brief tranquil days, when made for soulful pleasures; passage of silence gratifying the restless mind, and I will give...
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A Penny Dropped
Last Sunday in the celebration of Durten’s life, a person who had recently joined the community stood up to share. Earlier that week, she had been...
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Sean Happens 6
Miss Dill and Mr Martin weren’t speaking to each other. It had continued over three or four days. They sent out for takeaways and binned the cups and...
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Three Complicated Objects
If I had to choose three objects to show what life is like now for myself personally and for people in general; these are the choices I would make...
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does that phone work with crumpets?
does that phone work with crumpets? i have a toaster, a useful appliance – it can make toast elevate a teacake crisp a crumpet (eventually) even warm...
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Running With Cuchulainn
Running With Cuchulainn By Paul McCann Every street in Ardoyne had there own wee groups that would play games and tell stories , There was a group of...
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Waves and Fishes
For several weeks now, I have been threatening to walk the few miles to the fishmongers in the next village. It is a beautiful walk along a...
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Sean Happens 5
Mum sent Sean up to the Potter house to apologise. When she’d heard what happened, ‘I’m black mortified,’ she’d said. She’d waved away the idea of...
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Parcel for you...Part 24
Vanessa passed a long, uncomfortable night. She couldn’t escape the sounds of her daughter, rifling through bags, stomping to the bathroom and back...
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A walk in my new neighbourhood
I am sliding in love With this--dare I call it--home This cosy bundle of streets Unravelling for me to explore These buttercream houses Primly...
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There's a Ghost in My House (Dead Reckoning series - Part 6)
In which Josiah renews an old friendship and Archibald develops his spiritual side in the garden.
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Camping At Cavehill
Camping At Cavehill By Paul McCann Small groups of us used to leave Ardoyne for different reasons . To get branches up the Glen for Bonfire night or...
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