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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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Dolly Blue Monday
She'd never had it so good.
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the pie
The pie that wouldn’t crack, I bit it, I hit it, and I even kicked it. That pie just wouldn’t crack, It almost broke my back. I knifed it, forked it...
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The Three Ages of Man
Lots of noise, drink and smoke; the ideal environs of a lecher. And then the marathon begins, every little game, just another day as carrier and...
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Why We Bother
Two and a half thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Socrates was extremely worried that democracy would give rise to demagoguery. Socrates...
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Satin. Part Two.
My daughter Meghan set me up recently on a fantastic, on-line site, where I can sell my things and buy beautiful things at a bargain price. This has...
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Satin. Part One.
Meghan my daughter did her research and told me, “For your curly hair satin pillows is good for your hair,” So I bought lovely satin pillows from...
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What A Load of Nonsense!
At breakfast time my seeded toast smelled just like watercress while the coffee reeked of jellybeans recovered from Loch Ness My pillow smelled like...
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Busking In Coffs Harbour
Busking In Coffs Harbour By Paul McCann Although my experience as a poet and songwriter has been a lonely journey I have been happy to experience the...
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