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Cycle
Tension. The silence was so loud. Lore and Char had many words they wished to exchange with one another but the nature of their current situation...
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Fly me to Cuba.
Tonight the memory of the demise of Castro a few years ago and its attendant macabre carnival, stirred a melancholy recall in that part of my heart...
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Run
Plans. Lore and Char were stood around a table, a holographic model of a star system floated between them. Lore traced a line from the fourth planet...
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- 308 reads
Grandfather.
My grandfather’s front parlour always reeked of pipe tobacco and slowly passing time, time that was so reluctant to glide along that only a new war...
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Flaming Christmas Fare

The flaming pud was always a hit With our dog, my brothers and me Filled with spices of exotic hue We never quite knew just how to behave, How to...
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A Hare's Breath 5 - The Dark Hedges

The thoughts of an old fella on his return to a wee town in the North of Ireland in the 2020s and his love for hares and nostalgia.
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Here And After
Here And After By Paul McCann As he opened his eyes, he was looking down at himself there on a hospital bed with this doctor confirming he was...
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Living Dead Or Dead Alive
Living Dead Or Dead Alive By Paul McCann I could have died so easily just the other night but instead I just woke up and I was feeling all right ....
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Hit
Orange. Lore and Char were both sporting the same, orange jumpsuits as they ran through a labyrinth of concrete walls. The Hologram appeared beside...
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The Emperor’s New Vocabulary

It was about nine-thirty, and the Teddy-Boy starlings had just concluded their usual morning assault on our bird feeders. A gang of juvenile...
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Happy Christmas. Happy Christ mas. Happy CHRISTmas. Merry Christmas.
Happy Christmas. Happy Christ mas. Happy CHRISTmas. Merry Christmas. Was in my home town last night, I had gone to buy two very special cards, one...
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Bonding
Running. Lore sprinted after the figure. Lore watched as their past ran effortlessly through the open streets and, to start, thought they’d struggle...
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A Season at the Center of the Universe: Cecil Taylor at the Take 3 (Part One)
The following, a remembrance of a Cecil Taylor gig in the early 1960s, is a chapter from "Going Outside: Fiction • Commentary • Jazz." Published by Cyberwit.
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A Season at the Center of the Universe: Cecil Taylor at the Take 3 (Part Two)
The following, a remembrance of a Cecil Taylor gig in the early 1960s, is a chapter from "Going Outside: Fiction • Commentary • Jazz." Published by Cyberwit.
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The Quick and The Dead.
No one expected it. It could have all been a lot worse!! When I heard there had been gun shots, yesterday morning, in Austrillia. But hours later the...
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Bondi Before Christmas Day
Bondi Before Christmas Day By Paul McCann Just before Christmas day some thoughts of poetry began to come . I sat down and thought about Bondi and...
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Perilous journey

Why did the earthworm want to go across the road? … was the grass there greener? …
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run of the arrow chapter 7 The Wounds of War
The ambush had hit fast and brutally. One moment, the air was thick with the rhythmic clatter of the stagecoach wheels and the jingle of harness; the...
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A Hare's Breath 4 - The Horror

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 and bicycles and not being shot at and having a jumper to wear that doesn’t smell of sick.
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Pause
Sky. They were outside. They felt heavier, as though someone had weighed down their shoes. The town around them looked like a typical American town,...
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