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In Our Town
In Our Town By Paul McCann In our town we don’t walk alone or feel as if we’re not at home . We’re not the problem here today we don’t want trouble...
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Farewell Is a Lonely Sound (Dead Reckoning series - Part 13)
A time of comings and goings, in which Archibald and Josiah dicuss their respective 'goings' and the Detectives are less than happy about what's coming!
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The Travelling Salesman and Chess
To do routing, timetables and scheduling, if you wonder how good artificial intelligence is give it the travelling salesman problem. Then we'll see...
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He Ain't Heavy
Image from Wikimedia Commons - Author Peter van der Sluijs - Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
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The Right Combination
The Right Combination – Smith With A Why By Paul McCann Introduction: A nurse carrying out her duties notices there are two patients with the same...
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Pastries and Birthdays
Saturday was the third birthday of the Foggie Neuk Farmer’s Market, it would've been churlish not to attend. Was reading that George MacDonald was...
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The Missing Pig
Someone had taken away my pig. It was there in my room when I went to school, but when I came back that afternoon, the pig had disappeared. I...
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The first day of the week
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] This the day Him to remember: rising from the grave to live. This the day for all to praise Him to the...
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A View From the Cab - A Sidney Green Story
“Look at all those buzzing bees out there,” said the gentleman passenger, “running hither and thither to accomplish life's goals. Capitalists on...
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Kelpies, Water Nymphs and Nixies
What with all the rain and wild weather, I’ve been contemplating water nymphs, curses, three wishes and uncanny rivers birling dark peaty pools. Once...
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Love Never Changes
Love Never Changes By Paul McCann In a heartbeat I’d give all my life to you , all my love everyday in everything we do In a lifetime , there’s only...
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Jenny's Giggle In The Garden
Jenny's Giggle In The Garden By Paul McCann It was a quiet afternoon in Karmasville and Jenny heard the birds singing in the tree outside her window...
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The 30th Anniversary of Jack Schwartzman's Death
Jack Schwartzman had one daughter and three sons. This Producer died of Pancreatic Cancer at the age of 61. Sadly, he lost his life thirty years ago...
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Kit Handsome and a busy day in politics (1)
“My dog lacks the mental capacity to form criminal intent,” said Missy Johnson. This was going to be one of those days, thought Kit. He’d hoped for a...
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Miles Henderson Lived here (3)
The next few weeks were busy. Although the Writing Council hadn’t announced where the Henderson Festival would be held, Whitcombe was confident that...
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Intention
It’s that time again When you don’t know Who you are and where you are Looking in the mirror Closing your eyes Knowing that when you open them It...
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Silver Screen
Thursday afternoon Silver Screen, film for a fiver, at Peterhead hasn’t shown a film I’ve fancied for ages. At last, there was something I was...
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The Hunting of the Wren
It's a folk-rite of renewal. Like many, in its original form, it is unutterably savage. This is an old poem, (2015) but I've rescued it from an old hard disk because it reminds me of the clips I saw of last night's ridiculous pre-election slanging match. Image licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Image source wikipedia.org.
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Late, Late in the Evening
Late, Later in the Evening As the sunset behind the disappearance of the rune stone horizon, this moment calls for a reflection, taking a reclining...
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1:5:2 Fate (Part 3)
The initial launch lulled them into a false sense of security. They had all expected to have been thrown around the bridge, similar to pebbles in a...
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