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Dogsbody (3)
After the pub job, my money soon dried up. I was back to making calls and going through the local papers. One evening, Mr Watson – a tall elderly man...
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The Lilliputians in the vegetable patch - IP
In literature, we often stumble across inventions—names, ideas, phrases—that become so deeply ingrained in our culture that we forget their origins...
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The Summer of '69
My memory is hazy And a little mazy, But was it so crazy, Or downright lazy, To lie in the sun, Watching that daisy?
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Tom All Alone (4)
The days had a routine that he liked. Get washed and dressed and have his Corn Flakes or Ready Brek for breakfast. Dad had already gone to work, and...
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Refugee’s On The Road
Refugee’s On The Road By Paul McCann At any given time without warning any of us could be in a situation where someone asks for help . Who knows any...
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PASS THE BUCK, SAVE THE.........
PASS THE BUCK AND SAVE THE..… Roger Milroy , an investigative journalist poured over the news paper, sipping coffee early morning sitting in the...
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On the Other Hand
Summer wasn’t all drama. The holiday cottage was lovely, with some bigger and better beasties at the bird-feeder– red squirrel, pine martin. Visited...
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On Stages With Open Doors
On Stages With Open Doors by Paul McCann He opened his eyes and heard strange noises . They took him from that place to another place he had been...
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Knocking on your heart
Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Look, who is knocking! … – none have regrets who open the door!
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The Miracle.
Many years ago, I worked with a woman who was wheelchair bound. I would help her onto the loo on my own, no hoist, I would also help her into a...
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A hundred moments in autism - The Whale Cafe revisited
The Whale Cafe revisited I’m back in the lunch queue at the Whale Cafe. Now you may be thinking, that as I regularly get my lunch at the Whale Cafe,...
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Goodbye kiss
It was with closed lips The day we kissed goodbye There was no emotion Or commotion On platform five we stood You were looking at the clock You were...
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Wonderful.
I remember when I was 60, a friend told me, "Ring up and ask for your free bus pass," I rang up and was told, "It used to be 60, now it has gone up...
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Start
It starts with a squabble Turns into a fight Bystanders cheers No one can see the light First there where whispers Followed by pointed fingers Some...
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Mahler
The cliff house crumbles; its ghosts drift slower.
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Dogsbody (2)
After the interview at the Employment Exchange, I set to. Next day, I took a notebook down to the phone box in the village and looked up ‘Farmers’ in...
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Blunt Trauma
She was lying motionless when he arrived. He’d heard the commotion from his desk where he’d only just begun going over the homework assignments...
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A hundred moments in autism - I am Hangry
I am hangry. Autists can be prone to anger, a symptom of exhaustion from constant masking and frustration on not understanding NT communication and...
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Reasons to be Raging - Pt 3
Best laid plans to spend the summer months painting the wee weird door and wee weird windowsill on the kitchen exteriors ganged aglay , mostly as I...
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a city fable
when the storm of black snow and acid rain tears as the dark smoke clears if there in the starless sky the neon bow appears for you to have happiness...
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