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The Tale of the Housemaid’s Knee
My contribution to world events during the second half of October 2024, again described at the rate of one hundred words per day.
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Bright end of autumn
Blue sky after dark days of cloud and rain and foggy haze, but now the golden sunshine glints on the few remaining shaking leafy tints, and red and...
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The Noble Silencer
The Noble Silencer By Paul McCann Everyone present heard them say “ Oh look what crawled out of the sewer and came for breakfast “ The words had...
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Gavenie Braes Stone Circle
Friday, had a notion to be amongst ancient energies. A useful day, ominously charcoal-blue-grey with cheek-rosying winds. A walk to the local...
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The Bus Stop (IP)
At Tottenham’s stop in the bright midday sun, Two old dames wait, and the bus hasn't come. One shakes her cane, her patience near snapped, Mutters "...
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Where Maps End
Where Maps End Rays of maple light shimmer at sunrise, Dawn’s horizon cast on a glass sea below. Enveloping nascence, A quiet overture of birdsong...
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Seaside Reverie
It's nice to see the sea. Pity it's full of wee. And to park the car, there is a fee. Plenty of flowers, but no bee. Lots of people, full of glee...
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The Key
a piece of flash fiction
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Letter of Rejection
The poem The Children of Gaza does not exist. Instead, I saved time and energy by cutting out the middle person and writing my own letter of rejection.
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Either ore
The grum of our chapel bell marks the daily descent.
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Seven Roofers Roofing
My contribution to world events during the first half of October 2024, described at the rate of one hundred words per day.
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Bank Vaults In The Bunkers
Bank Vaults In The Bunkers By Paul McCann Just before the war began there was a commotion of people in motion around the city to withdraw all their...
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The Brahmin, the Tiger and the Fox – A Fable
A contract is a legally enforceable promise. A contract induced by fraud or misrepresentation is void and cannot be enforced by law. The person...
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Feeling Feelings
To hell with feeling feelings, it’s horrible. Over the years, did the processing, worked the workshops, danced like nobody’s looking, told the truth...
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Running the Gauntlet : Paranoid and Harrassed In The City Of His Birth! By Alfred N.Muggins
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1/7/24 (events of about.2 weeks before, a Friday in June 2024) Alfred set off to town (technically still a city, although you wouldn’t necessarily...
I long for
I long for I long for from my heart’s core my days, seven decades past when its spell, the modernity had not cast the dawn, dusk day, and night now...
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Anticyclonic Gloom
Last Wednesday was a lemon-lavender day, and plumbline still. Even birds seemed becalmed, perched along the rooftops, shushed by a somnolent sea. It...
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Don’t Forget!
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] When will we see an end of bloody battle, war? Now some must fight, defend and peace seek to restore. Give...
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The Traveller - Chaper 12
The Traveller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 1 2 A Garden Talk It was twilight in spring and the colour of flowers were scattered around the mountain...
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A different way to measure time
When I arrived in the park, the autumn leaves had formed an auburn duvet on my usual bench. Moments after I had begun sketching tree skeletons in...
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