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Every line on your face tells a story
every line on your face tells a story of heartach and loneness love and lost happy times there are some that are laughter lines your eyes look old...
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Goatie 6
The cells below the station. A place of grey and dark colours. Banging doors and the shouts of ‘Turnkey, Turnkey’ and the stink of a dog fight to the...
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The Birdman of Alcatraz
A feathered friend - (200 words)
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Something Is Fishy..............
When I was young, the only two types of cheeses I loved was, the triangle one and the thin square sliced one, that I had with something called Bun n...
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And Still Inside They Live And Die
A rhyming poem I wrote some years ago to perform at a friend's wedding.
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The doorbell
Stoooooooop! Please, do not ring again, I just want to focus, I don’t want to go there. Again, and again. Was it the third time? I cannot stand it,...
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She’s A Wonder
She’s A Wonder By Paul McCann She’s the girl with the rainbow in her smile and there’s a window to the stars in her eyes . Her voice is carried by...
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Lying in State? (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 15)
In which Josiah, Archibald and Chantelle pay their respects and get a surprise, for very different reasons.
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lonely moon
sparkling glisten glittering heavens starry skies starry night starry splendour silver moon alone beautiful moon deserted lonely pale curtains open...
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Hawthorn
Anyone know if this IS a Hawthorn?? Anyway, it's the one I can see from the window of The Writer's Den. Image photo taken this morning.
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Goatie 5
All of a sudden your life is not what it was. Your brain does its best to catch up. I don’t know what’s happening. I feel like greeting, or giving...
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Sonnet for Philbey
I used to hold her in one hand...
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Old Age
I thought I'd do some dusting. It keeps the joints from rusting. But the toaster received a crust in, The local paper - just in, And then my bowels...
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Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Three of Three)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/hereafter-holodog-story-part-on... Part Two at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/...
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That long nose!
Starfish Girl suggested that as I had written on Nose, and she on Trunk, I should try one on the famous nose. This is a revision of an old one …
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Excerpt from Sunset (a short story)
I was 14 years old, content with the notion of having no ambition. Life was a flow of empty thoughts that I dragged along behind me. School was a...
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The Picture Ranch 71
'So you don't know anything about what happened?' Eleanor G blew some smoke into the air. The sky was turning as red as her lipstick. 'No more n'you...
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Getting There
Getting There By Paul McCann There’s a beauty here in this place called Ireland , where peaceful paths take you to where spiritual stones stand ,...
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Marks on Spencer parts One and Two
-PART ONE- “Misses Preston, she like tells the class that pies are square.” said Spencer Finch. He was sitting at the dining table, scribbling in a...
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Jack & Ada's Café Restaurant.
I love McDonald’s! That’s an understatement! I could have one every week. Many times, I have. At first, I hated the gherkins in the Big Mac’s, and...
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