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Prologue: The Ultimate Deception

There’s a certain allure to vanishing completely - the idea of stepping out of your life and reemerging as someone untraceable, free. As I sat in the...

The Storyteller - Chapter 12

The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 12 The Time Travellers He awoke with the sound of birds chirping outside the window of the cottage...

The Storyteller - Chapter 11

The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 11 The Songbird He was sitting by the lagoon and the afternoon was fading into a long twilight of the...

The Storyteller - Chapter 10

The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 10 The Troubled Soul He sat by the crystal pools at Greengate watching water cascading down from the...
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The Burgh

Like some other Scottish places, this town abides, if not dilapidated, then resting like a lean to on its past. The sadness is in shadows that never...

Probably Knot

When something is less likely, there lies spectacle. When there’s a wave of hype, I just lean skeptical. Then, when you look for certainty, that’s...

August 1914

The events of August 1914 predertimined most of the following history, that is still being played out today. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).
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Playful Elven Folk

Precious homeland of leafy green, leave emotions in darkest night, while bright eyed foxes play by moonlight and only the boldest would venture,...
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Beg, I, your pardon

Beg, I, your pardon Time did grant on Leigh hunt poet the great with adorations in spate for his appeal, emotional to make his youth eternal despite...
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence Oblong gets mistaken for the Messiah

In my first week at university I am standing in a bar at a student night when two young men I’ve never met before walk up to me, prostrate themselves...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 9

The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 9 The Lost Dragon He had been walking through the Mystical Woods looking for a sign . He had a melody...

The Storyteller - Chapter 8

The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 8 The Lighthouse Keepers A gale force nine had arrived like a monster , wreaking havoc wherever it...

The Storyteller - Chapter 7

The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 7 The Fourth Dimension It was a warm summer’s night and all around Heroes Bay was the sound of waves...

2084-G

Michael Smith sat in the office of the private psychiatrist his friend had recommended him. "Can you bring people off the police tranquillisers? I...

The Enigma

Alan Turing (1912 – 54) “ I propose to consider the question 'Can machines think? ” The British mathematician Alan Turing is considered to be greatly...
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Leonard & Co-hen

Cohen claimed that all his lyrics were just poetry. He would write on anything that came to hand, sift through fragments later, pairing them up, piecing them together, one step up from Dada-ist Triztan Tzara's cut-ups, I suppose. Anyway, that's what i like to do, write bits and join them up later - or not.
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"That's Entertainment!"

I'm sure you'll work it out. Image is PD!!! By some 19th century geezer called Guillaume.
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A hundred moments in autism - Fashion

Fashion is one of these super neurotypical (NT) skills that are seemingly picked up by magic. Other kids at school always knew what to wear, what was...
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Not just the specks in their eyes*

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Easy to criticize and dig up ancient dirt, enjoy exposing lies, and actions that have hurt, with motive to...

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