Cherrypicked stories
R&D 5
They stood waiting. The first gulls met the day with their ragged crying over the tenement rooftops, the boards on the pier slick underfoot. Fog...
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Writing with a cigarette.
He is a man standing alone in front of the whole world dressed only in his words and the ash from a thousand cigarettes, judged by seas and mountains...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 45
we left ginny in the pub with patrycja she definitely did wake up, arms and legs everywhere pints dribbling from her chin sat next to her, had the...
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Finding the Give in Bernard Manning
She deduced he was the comic because he was in want of a smile. He also wanted the corner table dead on ten to. He wanted a pitcher of Theakstons and...
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Run OF The Arrow
Suddenly, a glimmer of hope caught Quinn's eye. Ahead, the endless plain gave way to a shallow, rocky rise. Not a mountain, not even a hill, but a...
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Silly nonsense.
Footsteps on a gravel path after midnight are generally associated with intruders of malevolent intent. The crunch rings out clearly in an otherwise...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 44
how do you find my style to read? for me, long blocks of text with regular punctuation are difficult to navigate this feels easier to write and to read my brain is wired weird
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The Ripple Path
Life moves in circles, well at least that’s how I see it, soft as rings on still water, each moment touching the next before we even notice. We rush...
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Overnight bus to Delhi.
I got on a bus. Light was already draining from the late, wet afternoon sky. The seats were wooden with no padding and I just knew that the moving...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 43
I stand at the top of monte igueldo looking out over la concha bay where we have been on the beach most of the day it looks vast from up here ginny...
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The Big Picture
I think you'll most likely work this one out for yourselves. Image is by Thomas Nugent licence CC BY-SA 2.0
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A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares.
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 42
back at the beach, I can see the women ginny bouncing up and down patrycja lying back on the sand petula sat upright, slightly apart hands clasping...
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Refer To Drawer
Frustration is our persistent hum, our tinnitus, a worry-worm growing fat on our fragile assumptions. It lurks in the pale mist of our waking where...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 41
Chapter 41 >> trying to keep going despite myself
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The Princess joins the revolutionary army (1)
“This is Princess Charmaigne,” said Rebel Leader. “She’s joining us from today.” “A Princess?” I said, surprised. I wasn’t used to fighting alongside...
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Toys
Freeing. After the Suspended Temporal Area, the ‘therapists’ office and The Official’s room, Lore was glad to be somewhere that had ample room to...
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GOODBYE, SOUL BROTHER 1 continued
Capt. Shuvee encounters several troopers out and about during the zero dark thirty hours out and about on their own before twilight agenda . He...
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Goa, 1976 with buffaloes.
The guest house was cool and quiet. From under its thatched roof and high ceilings I stepped into a stale morning. It was like walking into a warm,...
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Busking Into The Mystic
Busking Into The Mystic By Paul McCann I took the road out of Rosslare and made my way North . It was a long way from Clare to where the wild flowers...
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