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Stone him!!
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Stephen, full of faith and wisdom, disputed, argued cogently, exasperating his oppressors who accused...
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Curiosity is the Only Requirement
There is a resistance in my hips that needs unjamming. I feel it at my work desk and mostly sat on buses. When I lie flat on my back, it starts to...
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Street Dreams
Middlesbrough, the town of my recurring dreams.
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The Calm
The Calm Floating clouds whisper along the waterfront. In succinct drift, melodic, weightless in there Gentle stream. Where the clouds stop and stand...
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Lying in Lissadell.
There's an old log that lies rotting on the shore at Lissadell, right where the shingle meets the fields. It's lain there for as long as I've been...
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Ghigau 19
Sunday 16th July The weather showed no sign of abating and the sun rose fierce and unfiltered, like some alien weapon sent to destroy the world. In...
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Worst Case Scenario - Being Peter To Save Paul (Part Three)
‘I quit this, I quit the trip. I go home. I work a string of meaningless jobs. Eventually I quit those too, and somehow manage to quit all the way to...
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The Ride -5 of 5
Continued from Part 4 The Ride-4 | ABCtales Frank finished early again the following evening. He’d promised Lisa the ultimate pub crawl. They got...
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The Ride-4
Continued from Part 3 The Ride -3 | ABCtales They were in Solly’s - a backstreet boozer just north of the container port. The riverside district was...
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A City Full Of Singers
A City Full Of Singers By Paul McCann The colours of a rainbow arched themselves over the land as the sea link ferry docked at the Port of Dublin ...
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November graveyard with a robin.
The sun shone on the snow-covered graveyard this afternoon, a place where the atmosphere was heavy with memories, sadness, longing and hope. Beside...
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Running (Episode 33 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
In which Dolly gets some help with questioning Aefelthrith and Gwladys takes on some weighty responsibilities.
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The Ride -3
Continued from Part 2 The Ride-2 | ABCtales It was six weeks later, late August. Frank was back in Liverpool, working on the next issue. He was at...
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The Ride-2
Continued from Part 1 The Ride-1 | ABCtales Frank groaned as his phone alarm played its maddening little tune; one of these days he’d get round to...
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The Ride-1
THE RIDE So, it had all been arranged, virtually on the spur of the moment. They were to meet at Euston, with their bikes, in time for the 08.46 slow...
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The Smell of Other Worlds
Every two months or so, I go to the médiathèque for a life drawing session, and the atmosphere is always strangely reverent, as if we’re about to...
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Watching You Chapters Thirty-One and Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-One The sound of shouting had died away; his pursuers were somewhere below, searching the ramp. But still Withers remained in the...
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Drama Of Pheromones
Dear diary... I first realized I loved the bodies natural odour when I went to see the great musical Hair at the Hippodrome Bristol in 1970. I knew...
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Remembering John F. Kennedy
The Fall of an American Camelot It was a time of chivalry, of knights and ladies, performing like actors in an ethereal Brigadoon, evoking visions of...
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How does it do it?
What a wonderful thing is the human nose! detecting as up through its tubes the air goes, the scent of the lavender when the breeze blows, and so...
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