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Pondering above the Wye
Winter vista through bare trees … Hills surround, unmoved – they witness lush fields dormant, city restless – …
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Art History
A story of love, loss and tenderness...
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Holly and Oak
The sun, wrapped tight in swaddling bands Cradles low where the shadows dwell As the Holly King at his glorious peak Stirs sleeping limbs with...
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Tom All Alone (8) (ii)
The dinner was the next most exciting part of Christmas for Tom. He loved all the rituals of it. Dad carving up the turkey and putting some on each...
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Tom All Alone (8) (i)
Continuing my novel based on my childhood in South London in the 1960s. Christmas Day. Nan's scullery downstairs sweated and heaved with the heat and...
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Slingshot
Outside. Almost immediately after returning, The First and the other Lores had been ejected from the diner, finding themselves huddled around in the...
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The UFO Bible 4
After two years of working at Mr. Weathercock's school Michael decided that he didn't really have it in him to be a teacher. He borrowed the books...
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The Mystery in Astley Wood
A ghost story
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Letter from Frankincense & Myrrh, Solicitors
A solicitor's letter on behalf of a certain Mr S. Claus of Lapland in reply to 'Tommy's' wish list
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Winter Solstice (2 Haikus)
The shortest day, then Greyish, grim, sunless winter- It's still light outside! The rain is coming, But optimists tell us that- the sky's not dark...
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Hope
On a bridge in a park full of people an angel came and spoke to me. Through the mist her quiet words brought sunlight full of warmth and kindness. On...
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At the time God chose … [Advent 4]
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] For when the time was right Jesus was born – just when Joseph and Mary had to go way down to Bethlehem. Went...
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A Kiss in the Solstice Abyss
A day to rejoice the year’s rebirth.
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The Luckiest Man In The World
The Luckiest Man In The World by Paul McCann Jack has lost trach or reality after his wife died . His mind was hijacked after the car crash that took...
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Forget the memory.
Tonight, from a cluttered little graveyard of regrets and remorse, I exhume a melancholy memory inlaid with semi-precious stones. When the dirt it...
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Plumbers Sparks And Brickies
Plumbers Sparks And Brickies By Paul Mc Cann Well who else but a brickie would lay down a house for you with blisters on his blisters and a back near...
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Sheffield
Bickering. Their overlapping chatter just became noise that The Hologram thankfully tuned out for Lore as they watched themselves argue. “That...
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Christmas night
Beauty calls as the day falls people rushing by no one call on the tv screen I see happy faces of children playing smiling looking at Christmas...
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The Polisher And The Painter
The Polisher And The Painter By Paul McCann There's a twinkle in the twilight as a man walks down on the street . While the parlour lights of Belfast...
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Ninety-Two.
Meant to write this yesterday, but fell asleep, so here it is now. Ninety-two, that is quite a big number, but it could also be a small number, it...
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