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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (ii)

By HarryC on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

A couple of days later, he came over again. He'd brought his copy of mum's key, so I now had them all. Four door keys in total, plus two for the back...

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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (i)

By HarryC on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

Following the final day with the clearance at the bungalow, it's time to pay some bills. (continued from 'Final Day') The next day, I went into Walsh...

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The Bloody Great Stone Heads Problem

By The Other Terrence Oblong on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

I was woken at 6.30 one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and hurried downstairs to find Alun in an excited mood. “ We’ve got...

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Weather App. Haiku #16

By mark p on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

A break in the storm? Bright sunbursts through windblown cloud. Has Ashley moved on?

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Mixed Up Girl

By mcscraic on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

Mixed Up Girl By Paul McCann Keira worked as a clerical assistant for a firm that imported modern day antiques from Indonesia . The owners of the...

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Don't Look Back

By purplehaze on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

Shackleton is haunting me. Pondering what sort of man he was, charismatic, single-minded adventurer. A man who lived by the tenet, "Optimism is true...

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Nights Out With Mammy

By mcscraic on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

Nights Out With Mammy By Paul McCann As a boy scout , we were always doing different activities One of those was an unexpected , unrehearsed , play...

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Don’t feel 'at home'

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I do not feel ‘at home’ here, an ‘alien’ now exiled, for evil things are done here and everything’s defiled...

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MONKEY'S NEW MOON - RELOJANDO CRONICOS

By MJF on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

The next chapter in the Clocking Chronicles time-travel series. Detective Tempus travels to the Middle Ages.....

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God Save Me

By Alexander Moore on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

She’d been active in previous weeks. It had become a kind of ritual; when the sun began its fiery descent, she knew it was time to get ready. Active...

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A Long Woman

By sean mcnulty on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

Is that the Long Woman, Mam? I heard a wee boy say to his mother, referring to an old legend we could all at the very least half-remember. The Long...

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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Final Day

By HarryC on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

The final day of clearance at my mother's bungalow, following her death. Joanne, my niece, comes to help me as my brother has gone on holiday. Lottie...

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Loosing Little Things With Mammy

By mcscraic on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

Loosing Little Things With Mammy By Paul McCann Loosing things is always a worry . Like the day I lost my Mammy in the C & A department store in...

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Mother Of Goodness

By mcscraic on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

Mother Of Goodness By Paul McCann . . Mother of Goodness dressed with a gown of virtue and crowned with mercy and love Mother of Goodness walking...

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The Virginia Woolf Walk

By purplehaze on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

Started painting the indoor stairs to weird wee door. The paint is terrible. It’s a terra cotta-coloured non-slip paint, specifically for stairs, but...

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Nobody’s Fool

By mcscraic on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

Nobody’s Fool by Paul McCann Bapper went to school to learn to read and write . He was all brawn and knew how to fight so no one bothered him much ...