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PEACE.

Last year, December on the 4th I suddenly noticed a thick black dot in my left eye. It moved when my eye moved. I decided to ignore it, I was not in...

BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS: CHAPTER ONE

PREFACE: My name is Sidney Bolivar. I am the grandson of Henry Justice Bolivar (1898 – 1981). He was on the front lines when Allied troops marched on...
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BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS: CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER 2 On December 1, 1916, I was drafted into the 42 nd Black Watch in France. I landed at Le Havre aboard a troop carrier. I went directly to...
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"Turn Down the Noise"

Turn down the noise Power off the blue light Disconnect the media Ignore the frenzy Step into the forest Contemplate the lake View art in the clouds...
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Who's Aldo? (my new novel) audio extract

Hey everyone My new novel Who's Aldo? has been receiving glowing reviews. Also, ABC Tales did a wonderful and very kind review of the book. This is a...

ADAM & STEVE

ADAM & STEVE We're running out of firewood And we've only got the Holy Book left in the pile - It's been there for a while. Through windy streets...

How to transcend the body in ten easy steps

Stop gazing at yourself in the mirror. Avoid all dogma like the plague. Ignore bad news unless you can help to resolve it. Eschew vanity and all vain...
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The Monster Bigot

The Monster Bigot By Paul McCann For about a hundred years in Settlers City a monster known as Bigot lived underneath the city streets, unseen and...

Working together

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Youth with strength and fresh new vision, ready, speedy hands and feet. Those grown older, tired and slower cannot with their speed compete. …

A Walk Through A Village From Another Time

A Walk Through A Village From Another Time By Paul McCann If you could paint you a picture of my village in North Belfast , from another day and...
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A Fistful of Rials

The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Two.
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The shed smells like shit.

As a child my parents took me to Butlins holiday camp, maybe a few will see this, will have seen this. The shed smells of shit Its not a shed its a...

We're in this together... Ha!

Sometimes having just enough is plenty Especially when your pockets have been empty. In fact thats pretty much how you’ll learn By walking the...
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MR MANN (Work in Progress)

MR MANN Mr Mann just landed For talks in Tel Aviv, To speak to leaders trying out their new bombs in the streets. And Mr Mann is adamant That he’s...

LILI

Lili Clouds across the Channel come from deep inside her lungs. The newly born mum, with an uncomplete son. “He won’t hug me, he can’t love me like I...
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IVAN

IVAN She’s out there somewhere, in the carpet. A broken thread, just like horse's hair. I think of her from time to time And that little boy: my only...
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out of the loop

out of the loop there was a time when our homesteads quietly gently soothed, as they curved around us we made circles for the flame hearth huddled...
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Ever changing moods

Nothing about him is right. His ears are too crooked, his eyes too blind, his hair too wild, his head too big, his body too narrow, his words too...

1:4:7 Solutions (Part 3)

The towers of The Slingshot loomed overhead. The First put themselves between The Slingshot and their party before checking to make sure they were...

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