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Body-Building Begins!

Chew! chew! chew! so that wonderful spit assembled in mouth glands with enzymes that split some starch to begin …
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The Dragons' Lair Chapter 6

Chapter Six. Finn Learns About Dragons. Finn washed his face and ate the food Rose had brought. He tried the door, just in case, it was definitely...
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Amanderella and the Haunted Mill Chapter 6

Suddenly, another high-pitched, warbling whistle drifted from the upper storey. It was followed by a series of rhythmic thumps— thump-scuff, thump-...
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Brown (IP)

My favourite colour is of course Brown, every shade of Brown! A darkish brown eyed brunette my idea of an angel! A very special angel. A common,...

Songs And Stories To Share

Songs And Stories To Share By Paul McCann The seasons come and go, the years drift swiftly by, like leaves upon a river or clouds across the sky. Let...
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Safe to Open

September 4th I hate him. I really do, and I'm not saying it big to make it sound worse than it is. It wasn't even that much. Mrs. Calloway lost it,...
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Banished To Earth Book Two, Souls Adrift (16)

“What? No.” There was a stillness about her demeanour, a coldness he had until now managed to see past. But there it was. Her eyes, ice spheres. Hate...

Chapter 6 - A journey starts with a step out

They all woke up as the first rays broke through the fog that had ensnared the world. Aurora, Heilig, and Morgan greeted each other with a simple...
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Watching You Chapters Thirty-Three & Thirty-Four

Chapter Forty-Three McCain hammered the driver’s wheel in frustration. So the bitch had provided the lead, had somehow guessed his men’s destination...
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Bron-50

Continued from Chapter 49: Bron-49 | ABCtales Grace pushed open the door of the little church. The Reverend Gwilym Evans was there, straightening the...
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Poem of the week

Shipwreck Green

*/ This poem is an ekphrastic description of Turner's wonderful painting 'The Shipwreck' which I once gazed at for a very long time in the Tate Gallery, marvelling at the depths of the colour green he had created to depict a violent sea swallowing up broken ships and desperate men.
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The Dragons' Lair Chapter 5

Chapter Five. Finn in Hiding. Sadly, Finn rode back through the town gates. He had ridden hard since leaving home, sleeping by the roadside, and he...
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Amanderella and the Haunted Mill Chapter 5

Chapter 5. Trouble at the Mill. Amanderella woke early, refreshed and entirely untroubled by the valley’s nocturnal whistling. The Crooked Lantern...
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Aleister Crowley in Torquay, 1941

During the war fate finds him in retreat at the seaside, an odd holiday maker hiding from you don't want to know. Bored of whelks and the incessant...
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Banished To Earth Book Two, Souls Adrift (15)

51 “They sleep inside tonight,” Tucker said. “That they do.” After settling the horses down for the night, Trudy reached out and took Tucker’s hand...
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Banished To Earth Book Two, Souls Adrift (14)

48 “Tuck, I know what I am. I know where I came from. I’m thousands of years old. Thank God I don’t remember all my past. But if we are nothing but...
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Story of the week

Extract from my new book - Family Man

Aldo and Jennifer (Aldo's stepdaughter) drop by to visit Mrs Henderson (Aldo's old neighbour). The visit takes an unexpected turn when Mrs Henderson...
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"Art of Trouble" 11

Jade wasn’t amused. She was not jumping from this train; she’d rather confront and fight off their pursuers than tumble out of a moving vehicle ever...
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Running through wildflowers

Ankles turn on dried mud, Sticking out at angles, A once muddy reminder of the tread of deer and horses. Overhead kites and hawks hover and swoop. I...
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