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The lyre of Orpheus
There was a summer, not long after Breathless came out, when I listened to it on repeat. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — a song unlike most of theirs,...
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Season Of Love

A short one. image from wikimedia
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There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Engels

Dyado Petr, Baba Stefka and Todor Zhivkov are/were real people, the earthquake and appointment of a new head of state really did happen, and the places I’ve mentioned really do exist, but much of the rest of this tale is a fig leaf of my imagination. However, it describes an event that could have taken place in my part of Bulgaria seventy years ago. Superstition is so strong and diverse here that it’s possible to make it up and get away with it. Maybe I did make it up and maybe I didn’t.
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John Attard.

Someone sent me a video. It was a short clip. The video is about an old man called John Attard, he was a great, grand-father. He was treated very...
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Sunday Bike Ride
Sunday Bike Ride By Paul McCann Sunday on a bike as fast as you like propelled by the squeeze of handlebar grease . Changing gears with feet tap...
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Looking for yesterday
The River of Time keeps on flowing along, is probably a song lyric someplace. I have just forgotten where. I had pause to think of the notion...
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Sunday afternoon
Sunday afternoon and it's as hot and humid as it can be oh god it making me so sleepy this hot humid heat I know I should be doing things and...
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Sausage (Episode18 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))

In which a message is delivered that causes a number of departures!
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A Poet's Greek Mythology

If I knew grace amid embrace of time, that declares how encapsulating and alluring this lyre of blessed energy; then lull of many women surely...
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Cap And Crown
I didn’t just earn a degree I found myself, Inbetween nappies and deadlines, tucked into lunchboxes and long nights, stitched into nursery rhymes and...
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The Unseen Seed Of Trust
The Unseen Seed Of Trust By Paul McCann Trust is an unseen seed that you need to plant in your life so you can start to believe and never doubt again...
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Ghigau part 10
Wednesday 12th July Catherine Booth was in her kitchen, cooking Halloumi burgers and salad, with fruit and Greek yoghurt to follow, and sipping wine...
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In The Garden Where The Fairies Dwell
In The Garden Where The Fairies Dwell By Paul McCann There’s a place I know where we can go and stay just as long as you’re there and if you are one...
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What is holiness?

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] What is holiness? Beautiful righteousness, purity attractive, awesome, distinctive. Free of all defilement,...
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The Day Evil Fell
The Day Evil Fell By Paul McCann There were about twenty villages around the perimeter of the Gerrunga jungle . Many of the tribes were involved with...
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Mind Games.

Women do not rule the world. Men do not rule the world. Cats come Very close to ruling the world! I recently went to Marks and Spencer’s, to buy new...
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Mr Sykes Magic Kite
Mr Sykes Magic Kite By Paul McCann On Dilly Dally Hill the wind blew fluffy dandelion seeds through the air . Mr Sykes walked slowly against the wind...
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The face is what forbids us to kill

“Harder! Much harder!” shouts the teacher. “You have to attack! You mustn’t wait! Faster, quicker, meaner! They can’t let you down! You must stay...
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The Bomb Shelter (chapter two, p 2)

Final part of chapter two.
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The Bomb Shelter (Chapter Two, p1)

And finally, here is chapter two. Please enjoy. Provide any feedback
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