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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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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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Strange Phenomena
I have certain clothes I would never dream of wearing outside the privacy of my own home. Nothing kinky. Plenty time for that later. No, these...
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New Directions (18)
It was almost midnight when I arrived home. Chucking my clothes in a bloodstained heap near the toilet bowl I climbed into bed naked and dirty too...
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Sean Happens 4
Sean hugged himself in the back of his Uncle’s van. He squatted,shuggling sideways, breathing through his nose the musty smells. Human debris withthe...
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Sean Happens 3
Dad was sitting dozing outside the kitchen on a hard wooden seat. His balding head and ear were scarlet, and the sun had taken a blowtorch to his...
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These Are The Signs
These are the signs of the cross. A half empied bottle of screw top wine in the bus shelter by the blighted terminus, child's new shoes wildly...
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I Have Shamed Myself
Several Christmases ago, I received a DeLonghi Icona Vintage Espresso Machine. Well, truer to say that I received Christmas money and bought one, in...
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Do Not Come to My Funeral
Another fallen comrade younger than I. Image created at canva.com from pd elements.
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