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The Ripple Path
Life moves in circles, well at least that’s how I see it, soft as rings on still water, each moment touching the next before we even notice. We rush...
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Overnight bus to Delhi.
I got on a bus. Light was already draining from the late, wet afternoon sky. The seats were wooden with no padding and I just knew that the moving...
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A Look At Life Through Cat’s Eyes
A Look At Life Through Cat’s Eyes By Paul McCann Betty Whitherspoon was pulling down the blinds in the front parlour just as the street lights were...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 43
I stand at the top of monte igueldo looking out over la concha bay where we have been on the beach most of the day it looks vast from up here ginny...
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The Big Picture
I think you'll most likely work this one out for yourselves. Image is by Thomas Nugent licence CC BY-SA 2.0
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A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares.
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Protests
Loud. The room fell away and a crowd replaced it, concrete and rebar became people and flags. The Hologram stood beside Lore as they spotted Loren...
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Rest In Peace, Hazel VI
Two years ago tonight, I watched you die. It made me unhappy and I started to cry. I saw the life leave your body and it was unpleasant to see. You...
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Christmas Time
Waves of time go flowing back to Christmas time snow on the ground carol being sang everyone looks so cold there freeze cold to the bone and then...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 42
back at the beach, I can see the women ginny bouncing up and down patrycja lying back on the sand petula sat upright, slightly apart hands clasping...
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Refer To Drawer
Frustration is our persistent hum, our tinnitus, a worry-worm growing fat on our fragile assumptions. It lurks in the pale mist of our waking where...
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run of the arrow, chapter 1 blood arrow
Quinn glanced over his shoulder. The main body of riders was still a mile or so back, their silhouettes shimmering like dark phantoms in the heat...
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Town Hall Busking
Town Hall Busking By Paul McCann As a busker writing songs is part of that experience . People and places all have their own story which often can...
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Briefings
Bored. Loren and Crait had been told to arrive fifteen minutes early to the meeting. No one else got that memo. They sat opposite one another, as was...
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My Favourite Books
My Favourite Books As a kid I was a serial re-reader. I read Biggles Takes Charge easily 50 times, I’d re-read Biggles books over and over. Others...
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Sure Thing.
As soon as I saw her name, I knew she was going to be funny. As soon as I saw her name, I wanted her to win! My daughter had not heard of her, but I...
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All I Want For Christmas ….? By Alfred N.Muggins
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24/12/21 Is more mobile phone chargers and more charging wires, because the people in this house keep moving them, and half of them don’t work any...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 41
Chapter 41 >> trying to keep going despite myself
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Teaser Chapter from THE PAYOUT GAME - An appointment at the lighthouse
Available for Preorder now: 1 The Winter Solstice Regatta from Roscarrig Harbour always concluded with two rowboat crews racing each other around the...
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The Princess joins the revolutionary army (1)
“This is Princess Charmaigne,” said Rebel Leader. “She’s joining us from today.” “A Princess?” I said, surprised. I wasn’t used to fighting alongside...
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