Cherrypicked stories
The Experts
I am an expert, and here is one easy step to live until you're a hundred. Omit all toxic foods from your diet. Firstly, all fruit and veg should be...
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New Directions (2)
I’d seen Dev Mullur around at the auctions. We were on nodding terms. I could see by the properties he bid on he had a pretty long list. Never going...
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Give A Little Thought
The road to righteousness is not rhetoric, the path to freedom is not fighting. The mother of all battles grieves for her children, the father of...
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Kali Yuga - Brave New Year

A wee bit late, both for Brexit and The New Year; but as I've revised this old poem I though it might still make a point - nothing changes! I should add the Jester here does not refer to King Charles, but a certain politician! (Image courtesy of Christoph Sholz from Wikimedia Commons)
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New Directions (1)

Although almost midday the inside of the car was full of dark shadowy corners. I could hardly make out the shape of my shoes resting in the spaces...
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Night Help

Slowly, silently, the lamplight falls here and there as the farmer strolls back from the barn where the soft beams lit the struggles as ewe and man...
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"Turn Down the Noise"
Turn down the noise Power off the blue light Disconnect the media Ignore the frenzy Step into the forest Contemplate the lake View art in the clouds...
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Who's Aldo? (my new novel) audio extract
Hey everyone My new novel Who's Aldo? has been receiving glowing reviews. Also, ABC Tales did a wonderful and very kind review of the book. This is a...
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A Fistful of Rials

The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Two.
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The shed smells like shit.
As a child my parents took me to Butlins holiday camp, maybe a few will see this, will have seen this. The shed smells of shit Its not a shed its a...
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IVAN
IVAN She’s out there somewhere, in the carpet. A broken thread, just like horse's hair. I think of her from time to time And that little boy: my only...
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One Night, in Berlin

A very dark night.
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out of the loop

out of the loop there was a time when our homesteads quietly gently soothed, as they curved around us we made circles for the flame hearth huddled...
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Ever changing moods

Nothing about him is right. His ears are too crooked, his eyes too blind, his hair too wild, his head too big, his body too narrow, his words too...
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A Drama And A Crisis
I don’t know. You take a week off to have Covid and return to a world where the Post Office has grown horns and a tail. The arts strike again.
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Look Through Any Window (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 50)

It's always the same, when you're hoping for a fast and trouble-free getaway, someone or something comes along to spoil it, and Josiah & Co. are no exception!
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Sun - Shines

The sun is probing morning’s shabby looking grey-mist a movement of sunshine emerges here & there provides enough colour brings gladness to the...
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Ticket to Tehran

The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part One.
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Another Picture Of A Place In Another Time

Another Picture Of A Place In Another Time By Paul McCann In the village I grew I recall the gambling that went on around the back alleys and spare...
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Parcel for You ...Part 12
The update went on rather longer than Vanessa had expected. She gave up on watching over him, there was something horrifying about seeing Spencer in...
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