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Crado Come Home
Me and the world around me during the second half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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1:5:4 Rewind (Part 3)
Darkness. Then. Light. An intense and blinding light painted their vision white before adjusting to see the vignette before them. A grey and sterile...
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Happy Birthday, Mom - Part XII
Your death came as a surprise, it certainly wasn't foretold. If you hadn't died, today you would've turned 76 years old. I learned that you were...
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The World as it Might Have Been
'We'd sat beside the river/near the gardens of the cathedral/close to where the slip kilns/tempered the clay.'
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All the President’s Biscuits
Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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Computing through the ages
This is a fictional non-fiction piece written in 2014 Where have we come from and where is it all going? I sit with Martin Doubtless of Norwich I.T...
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Bo-Bo Found A Life -Chapter 14
Bo-Bo Found A Life A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 14 On The Bus Around the TV set they sat with their eyes peeled on the big match . Wrapped up in...
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Bo-Bo Found A Life -Chapter 13
Bo-Bo Found A Life A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 13 The Street Kid Once a year the local church hired Bo Bo and Charlie to help with the spring...
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Bo-Bo Found A Life - Chapter 12
Bo-Bo Found A Life A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 12 At The Barricades When ever the local community had a problem they called a meeting . The most...
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Bo-Bo Found A Life - Chapter 11
Bo-Bo Found A Life A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 11 A Walk To The Swimming Pool Just before summer holidays the teachers of Back Street Boys school...
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The power of water
In the cradle of waves, we emerged, eighty percent liquid, a dance of molecules, a consciousness of water, flowing through our veins, echoing the...
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Another Art (Villanelle-esque!)
Another Art (Villanelle-esque!) Jennifer Pickup, 31.07.2024 (Inspired by ‘One Art’ by Elizabeth Bishop) The art of waiting is hard to master –...
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Garden bindweed, again
Insidiously quickly it binds, spirallingly winds entangling. strangling, entwining around grasping support from the stronger stems; poking through,...
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Bo-Bo Found A Life - Chapter 10
Bo-Bo Found A Life A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 10 An Early Snow Outside in the street the carpet of winter had come . Bo-Bo looked out the window...
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Bo-Bo Found A Life -Chapter 9
Bo-Bo Found A Life A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 9 On The Job Business was slow in the village from time to time and in the quite times there were...
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Tom Crean
It is said that Ireland is a haunted place full of spirits; a land where the dead are celebrated. Tom Crean The journey to the Emerald Isle had been...
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Travelling Alone
The train was busy but it was Father’s Day. It was full of people returning home to visit their fathers, showing their respect on this particular...
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Grace
Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors...
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Olympics.
And don’t even get me started on the Olympics opening! Total Blasphemy! Because of that, I will NOT be watching it! Consider itself Boycotted!!! I...
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Hamster and Thatcher (deceased) - The energy company emergency tax
Sir Keith Hamster, newly-elected Labour Prime Minister, is keen to re-shape socialism for the 21st century, but none of the policy wonks in his party...
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