Cherrypicked stories
Getting Older Sucks...

…but it’s better than the alternative. This morning’s snail mail was an advert, with vouchers, for Tena lady pants and an advert from the...
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Mammy’s Break In Boy
Mammy’s Break In Boy . By Paul McCann . Mammy looked a bit worried , she had locked up the house and forgot to take the key . We walked through the...
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New Directions (16)
Things get rough. I've not written much action stuff, I hope it makes sense
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Wild weeding

Wildflower spatterings of small dainty flowers – mauve, orange, yellow, blue – dappled and soft; but oh, how they grow, spread, how quickly they...
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Wild Side Of April

Started off a clear morning, dawn sky of red and gold; wood mice hoped this day would stay pleasant...and not too cold. Proceeding on their way...
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Walrussey

Walrussey For Wally They say that you dozed off on an iceberg and awoke on Irish shores, a Nordic visitor without a horde, lonely wanderer, far from...
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New Directions Part15
Been taking a bit of a Haitus on this, but I'm still working on it. Have included a link to pt 14 as a reminder
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The 3000 foot fall

Colin thought he’d better calm the f*** down and take stock. Points of contact first then. Left foot – on a nice little ledge. Right foot – dangling...
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Perhaps

I have no answers. If this provokes outrage, then that's good. Israel has the worst possible leader at the worst possible time. Why does a nation of Persians feel so strongly that Israel should not exist? (I am being disingenuous, it is nothing to do with ethnicity, surely we all know that?) Anyway, if your outrage leads to ill-thought out comments, I won't be answering them. No known copyright issues.
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a dumbness of mallets

a dumbness of mallets the first warm sunday of the year, the sun barely up and yawning before men grunt in garages, clatter in sheds, unsheathing...
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Hillsborough
Be damned your Maxwell and Murdochs Poodle politicians and Tory scum On a private-public leash Hauled o’er the Lepping Lane The smashed road of David...
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Parcel for you...Part 23

Spencer was standing at the window as the car pulled up outside. He rushed to the front and stood at the threshold, rubbing his hands and watching...
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In This House IV: Final Chapter
It’s funny, really, the fight or flight response. Once it is triggered and the adrenaline is dumped into the bloodstream in a last ditch effort to...
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Where is Everybody?

Well, where? Image created by me at canva.com
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In This House III
In the darkness, she dreamt. She saw the village in which she lived. Elm trees, which lined the roadside of her culdesac, shed their leaves, floating...
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This is Poetry?

One of the first few sonnets I ever wrote... I took a word out of it today.
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The Gift Of Winter

The Gift Of Winter By Paul McCann When winter came men were seen wearing donkey jackets and women wore their scarfs . Children had mitten and gloves...
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The escape artist
Budgies don't sing but a happily chit-chatter hopping around all the time chatting pleasantly very much like sparrows. A brain as big as half a pea a...
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Inside one of the bacteria that have a compass and a motor …

Machines, machines, machines galore: molecular machines to … Three-dimensional chemical complexity, beautiful structure, amazing activity!
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Strange Days

This is a piece that didn't make it into the very unreliable Berlin memoir 'In the Mouth of the Bear'. (Available on the 'Zon, in big writing). It's just descriptive, it's not really about anything, so I left it out.
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