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A hundred moments in autism - Training Day
Today is a training day, in person, at one of the university’s excellent training facilities. The training itself is fine, there is good coffee and...
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Weekend at Nans
The dog comes to greet me wagging its tail frantically like it has nt seen me in forever Friday night line up Come on down the price is right Higher...
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Orphic Pleasures
this is so old it was written on vellum ...
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The Book: Chapter 33
London greeted them in the early evening with grey skies and drizzle. Mist wrapped around the old buildings, hiding their secrets. The city was a...
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A hundred moments in autism - Morning Surprise
I climbed into bed with Mrs Oblong this morning and she looked at me, with a shocked expression. “It’s me,” I said. “Your husband.” “I know who you...
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Steelie 6
He leaned forward, the ink from the Racing news and rough wood of the table digging into his forearms. A nimbus of light seemed to drift and spread...
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Parcel for you - Part 55
‘You have to give him his freedom, Mum, so he can develop as a sentient being. I really think we, as a family, are pioneers of this new technology...
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Eva
Listen to Eva sing so pure and simple she flying on angels wings hear her melody on the air you can hear it everywhere and her magic touch as she...
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The Book: Chapter 32
Alice and Mick sat at the dining table, still cluttered with cereal bowls from breakfast, but neither of them cared. The table, usually reserved for...
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A Straight Talking Man
A Straight Talking Man By Paul McCann See Sorrowful Jones is who I am but nobody really gives a damn . Life’s hard but I’m doing what I can I’m a...
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Finding New Ways To Live
Finding New Ways To Live By Paul McCann It was Christmas Eve and Sean was looking forward to driving back home to be with his family . He had just...
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Bliss
Snuggling down in a cocoon of bliss, The spell was broken by an impending piss. Like life itself, It was hit and miss.
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The Dictator
The Dictator People who labelled me vulgar are dead. People who sneer at gold don’t have any. So flexible: gold taps, watches, bullion. Always have...
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The Book: Chapter 31
I see them. I burn. She dares defile my pages with her wretched scrawl. The deranged human thinks she is a match for me. Me? She believes her ink can...
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Spring-Shine!
Celandines sparkle when the sun shines …
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Mary, Mary. Part One.
I remember when I worked with Margaret, she was a lot older than us, she was single and had two cats, that she called, “My girls.” She was devastated...
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The Lonely Goose on The Durme
I was planning to write about this bird, the new IP seemed a good place for it. . . . pic taken by me
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Downhill With No Brakes
Downhill With No Brakes By Paul McCann In the city of heartaches a scream just seconds away , down to the traffic lights that changed from red to...
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The Book: Chapter 30
They sat at Alice’s kitchen table with the book. After the shock of the night before, they’d driven to her house because neither of them wanted to be...
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Time-space continuum
hum, humm, hummm hum, humm, hummm a hymn to O, O, oh oh dear! My god humm, ummm, OM
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