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Planning a Children's Party

“Thank God, it comes but once a year.”
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To see through the haze

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Your thinking a haze as around you you gaze: Is life just a muddle of chance? With hatred and vice, and so much that's not nice, yet …
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Love Story 14
Mum made us both a pot of tea and put out a plate of Digestive. We sat at the table, knee to knee. She had her fags. I’d my biscuits to dunk in my...
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Persona non grata

This is the story that is slithering through the country like a dusty snake: injustice is rampant and cannot be controlled. The citizens are unsafe...
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Mother Of Acknowledgment
Mother Of Acknowledgment By Paul McCann Mother of acknowledgement the innocence you wore behind a smile , with an acceptance you carried a child ,...
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Evidence Of God
Evidence Of God By Paul McCann The innocence behind a smile , the nonsense that goes running wild Gods love will never disappear in all I see and all...
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Love Story 13
Da came through for his dinner. He glanced at us talking and laughing, grunted something, as he drowned the fish in salt and vinegar. Picked up his...
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1:4:5 Negotiations (Part 3)
The vision ended. “I think we both know what that was.” Lore spoke coldly. Crait sat there. Eyes wide open, mouth firmly shut. “What did you do to...
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Midnight Mockery (working title) 1
1 “Have you ever heard of the Midnight Game? A few years back, that game popped up on the internet, inspiring teen stupidity, scary stories to read...
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Listen to the Almighty
I stepped out into a garden of flowers their scent surrounding colours enchanting petals fluttering in a soft wind and I prayed- for many others who...
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Love Story 12

Mum had a cup of tea on the go and the chip pan on to make Da’s tea. Animal fat and incinerated starch creating a sticky vapour that clung to every...
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The shoreline in autumn
The waves peter out over the pebbles The early evening light is fading gulls circle Stillness in the clouds filled autumn skies Like a turner...
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Firework party, a little early

Fizzy fireworks, sparkling lights: no fear here of ghosts or bombs, but colourful exciting sights – squeals, bright eyes, a rolling surprise: wheesh...
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Love Story 11
‘She would notice,’ I bit down on my bottom lip to show that was our conversation over. Ali recovered quicker than a whiplash victim cashing a cheque...
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flowing love fever
let my dreams flow flow round-and-round warmly dearest tightly darling maiden dream flowing around your dreams my arms in love warmly safely tenderly...
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Civilians In War
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20/10/23 Of course civilians should be allowed to have the necessities, and the wounded and injured. Those are supposed to be the modern rules of war...
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Love Story 10
Mum floated about smoking between the kitchen and living room. Da ruffled the sports’ pages of the Daily Record to show he was reading and didn’t...
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Allhallows

The church clock strikes the midnight hour, and the children now have long gone home; with their costumes folded and put away, Halloween is passing...
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Blue Haunt
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." -- Oscar Wilde
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One Good Turn

...deserves another.
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