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The Asylum Part 1
As we drove down the windy gravelled road, our tires kicking pebbles into the trees that towered over us like a canopy trying to hide what was to...
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Running For Home
Running For home By Paul McCann I’ve got two strong legs and one strong heart I’m ready to run right from the start a shot was fired from the...
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on the nature of dehumanization
We often talk of the Holocaust and say never again; as though mechanized oppression and slaughter were not part of contemporary reality. But...
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rage, rage against the Dying of your Rights
eagerly we grab new inventions rejoicing in humankind's progress, each smoothing of the way to Earth's immolation pile up mistakes to rectify...
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Recycling Without the Helmet
It seems years ago since I went to a jumble sale or car boot, and that's not surprising because it's actually been decades. But I remember them well...
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Gareth's Body
The conversation with the registrar’s assistant leaves Emily shivering, despite the warmth of the day. Throughout the call the insensitive jobsworth...
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Bubby
He was called Bubby and he went to Heaven. He died in 2018 at the young age of fifty-seven. When we moved into my house in 1977, Bubby became our...
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And birdie moved in
Karine locked her front door and set off past the hedge that separated her garden from next door's She heard a chirp it sounded questionning it was...
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The Storyteller and The Quiet One's
The Storyteller And The Quiet Ones by Paul McCann He was walking along the road to Courtstown when he noticed a lady approaching from the opposite...
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Is democracy an absolute?
Recently, in the USA we've been talking about an apparent coup against our traditional system of democracy. I have to point out that democracy is not...
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The Lost Boys
When I arrived at the coffee shop with the knowledge that the kids were with their no-good son of a bitch father for the afternoon, I spotted a seat...
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"Willow's Tail" 32 ( Conclusions Part 2-- the ending)
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I call you up
i call you up after years of tears and fears i took a deep breath and let it out it's all up in the air we never said a real goodbye there was...
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Its Gone
it gone it gone but the words linger on if I could remember them that would be a start but i can't remember a single letter of the words it is so sad...
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Her Justice is Life
Maria was a troubled soul. She was someone who was dealt a crappy life in her earlier years which impacted greatly on her throughout her life. It...
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The Kindness - Chapter 1 cont'd...
The Kindness, Chapter 1 cont'd: Fresh from guiding Gracie over – and still feeling the prickly embarrassment of being goosed by her greedy hands – Mr...
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Aberdeen Beach 1971
Aberdeen Beach 1971 Kids on The Beach They play away Scattering sand Building castles Buckets Spades Adults buried Up to their necks Beachballs...
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The ghost king
He didn’t believe in himself. In his own existence. He did not believe in the existence of the other ghosts either, whose numbers were legion, which...
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