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My Father Is Younger Than Me
It had been sixty years since I last saw him
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Is That Even Allowed?
Brought in a ringer allowable. Saturday was Foggie Farmer’s Market. Thought, ‘no spend, no go’. Then thought, it’ll be all Hallowe’en-y, there are...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (ii)
A couple of days later, he came over again. He'd brought his copy of mum's key, so I now had them all. Four door keys in total, plus two for the back...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (i)
Following the final day with the clearance at the bungalow, it's time to pay some bills. (continued from 'Final Day') The next day, I went into Walsh...
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The Bloody Great Stone Heads Problem
I was woken at 6.30 one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and hurried downstairs to find Alun in an excited mood. “ We’ve got...
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Weather App. Haiku #16
A break in the storm? Bright sunbursts through windblown cloud. Has Ashley moved on?
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Mixed Up Girl
Mixed Up Girl By Paul McCann Keira worked as a clerical assistant for a firm that imported modern day antiques from Indonesia . The owners of the...
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Don't Look Back
Shackleton is haunting me. Pondering what sort of man he was, charismatic, single-minded adventurer. A man who lived by the tenet, "Optimism is true...
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Nights Out With Mammy
Nights Out With Mammy By Paul McCann As a boy scout , we were always doing different activities One of those was an unexpected , unrehearsed , play...
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Don’t feel 'at home'
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I do not feel ‘at home’ here, an ‘alien’ now exiled, for evil things are done here and everything’s defiled...
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MONKEY'S NEW MOON - RELOJANDO CRONICOS
The next chapter in the Clocking Chronicles time-travel series. Detective Tempus travels to the Middle Ages.....
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God Save Me
She’d been active in previous weeks. It had become a kind of ritual; when the sun began its fiery descent, she knew it was time to get ready. Active...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Final Day
The final day of clearance at my mother's bungalow, following her death. Joanne, my niece, comes to help me as my brother has gone on holiday. Lottie...
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Loosing Little Things With Mammy
Loosing Little Things With Mammy By Paul McCann Loosing things is always a worry . Like the day I lost my Mammy in the C & A department store in...
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Mother Of Goodness
Mother Of Goodness By Paul McCann . . Mother of Goodness dressed with a gown of virtue and crowned with mercy and love Mother of Goodness walking...
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The Virginia Woolf Walk
Started painting the indoor stairs to weird wee door. The paint is terrible. It’s a terra cotta-coloured non-slip paint, specifically for stairs, but...
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Nobody’s Fool
Nobody’s Fool by Paul McCann Bapper went to school to learn to read and write . He was all brawn and knew how to fight so no one bothered him much ...
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Alien Opportunities Ch.4 : Suspicions Part 4
Chris hears more views about the aliens from Earth Patriotic Movement members, comparing them with his own experience of the alien guests.
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Seventy-Seventh Birthday
In July of 2013, you died and you went to Heaven. If you hadn't died, today you would've turned 77. After taking chemotherapy for months, you died...
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1:5:5 Forgotten (Part 8)
Lore moved in closer and darted around it, examining its face from every angle; every so often, they would make a noise of thought or mumble...
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