Cherrypicked stories
Kindness can cost little but carry a great weight.
For all those addicts who we see freezing on the street searching for that tenner bag.... Addicts don't choose to be addicts, they may take heroin...
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Another Place And Another Time
Another Place And Another Time by Paul McCann Sometimes I tend to drift away back in time and think of my childhood days growing up in a small...
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The Good House (Part 3 of 3)
PART 3 James saw her slipping from the foot of the tree and he bought his gun up quickly. Easy as shooting a small creature for food he thought. The...
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The Coffee House Spy" 13
Emily shivered with renewed fear once Brent left the kitchen with that professionally held gun in his hand to answer the door, or attack the visitor...
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Sic Transit Gloria
Another old poem that I've reshaped (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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January Panorama
Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/january-panorama January Panorama Colours bloom in midnight skies, incendiary sounds,...
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Make Millions in Two Minutes...
Today I was in my sprawling country estate in Scotland. I went wild swimming with my extremely macho chums, took down a stag then did some fishing...
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Fit For Work
Disabilities in the workplace Amazing things like miracles do happen I think of a friend's son. His parents thought he was disobedient, stubborn and...
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The Austere Planet
“What a rubbish ending,” said Finch, throwing down the book in disgust. “A duck did it.” “A duck?” I said. “I thought it was supposed to swans that...
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Autobiography (but not mine!)
I buzzed round in the cloud, clung to some of my kind …
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House of Cards, Hot Air and Tea Leaves
Past, Present and Future
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At the Moment - Chapter 1
You know that feeling when you wake up from a dream so vivid that you lived it? You created it right there in your memory. It is part of your life...
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Pick Up The Pieces (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 49)
The Undertakers are 'under starter's orders', as are the Detectives. With everyone in their respective vehicles, we should be off and running now, shouldn't we?
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Things Fall Apart
A follow on from my previous poem 'Slipping into the Water', an attempt to put the condition into words. (Image is courtersy of Pixabay)
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Untitled at the moment. Chapter 1 maybe?
His heart is clawing against his ribcage, trying to find a gap big enough to break through. The pain in the depth of his neck suggests he has slept...
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This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B
Stand aside Tristram Shandy, this is The Life and Opinions of Turlough Ó Maoláin, Gentleman. Compiled during the late part of December 2023, at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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The Darlings
The Darlings So, I was seeing this woman for a while who was in and out of the music business. She once married a man who was in a band who will...
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Cernunnos
He wasn’t really a Reverend; he was a god- botherer who could out-bible any trained-up taker of the cloth. We just called him that. I found him...
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Storm
Wind battering, rattling, howling, thunder growling, rain pounding, ground flooding, shelter shaking, hearts quaking, loose tiles lifted, breaking,...
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