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Chapter 1 Part 2: Introductions
Chapter 1: Introductions The two of them ate their meal in silence with all sound coming from other patrons or the music playing in the background...
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Chapter 1 Part 1: Introductions
Chapter 1: Introductions It was the final week of Fall and a crowd had gathered in Andrews café. Twenty people are more than enough to fill any...
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The Number 6 - Rewrite
We all know the saying, you wait ages for a bus, and then three show up at once. Well how many of you have boarded the third in line. I bet not many...
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And last of all, the hamper
Kenneth takes the hamper after all; it’s worth the whole year and more, the last hamper of them all, full of mince pies and truffle spread and little...
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19.2 Havaru
Petty Cash ran into the office room and buzzed the director, “Minister is coming, sir!” Minister of Defence H Walton entered, “Director!” and left...
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We Love Your Way
. We Love Your Way By Paul McCann If there's a war then show us a way . If there's a fight put it right today . If there's a word , tell us what to...
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The Swagman's Lullaby
. The Swagman's Lullaby By Paul McCann Once an old swagman sat down and rested by the camp fire at night, with the Billy on the boil he'd tune up his...
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The Echo Of Her Hello
. The Echo Of Her Hello By Paul McCann Memories of her never die . She was carried away on a breeze And taken up by angels wings to heavens door ...
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Past Dwellers (The Lost)
We tossed you aside when the buildings were torn down, sibilant tongues from the tenements of this town, torn souls like lascerated wallpaper hanging...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning-Chapter Thirteen: Induction - Part Three
They held a leaving party for Caroline. Martyn thoughtlessly booked a room at The Feathers but the kids said they wanted it at McDonald’s so he had...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning-Chapter Thirteen: Induction - Part Two
Meanwhile, back at The Old Rectory, and clearly unknown to Martyn, at that very moment another important conversation was taking place. After they’d...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning--Chapter Thirteen: Induction - Part One
August sank into September, though you wouldn’t have known. A little chillier perhaps, a little cloudier maybe, dusk came slightly earlier, but...
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Golden Memories: The Cafe
When my bike was off the road for a few months, I thought I would walk around to one of the less fashionable biker cafes to see what they were up to...
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Come! See! [6. of series based on old carols]
O come, all you faithless … see the wonder in Bethlehem. Baby, King Jesus, born to be our proxy. O come, do not ignore him, O come, bow now before him, receive his gifts, adore him, Christ, the Lord …
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Five Days.
So much has happened in 5 short days, I had my wisdom tooth out 4 days before Christ mas, that was on Monday, nothing else really mattered to me but...
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Stevie Tait
Morrisey sang The Last of the Famous International Playboys on the radio and I quickly turned it off. Some windows were blacked out with yellowing...
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New Year In New York
. New Year In New York bt Paul McCann Homeless in New York , The streets are cold an empty . It's new year here and there is no mercy for me . In a...
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A Christmas Tree
, Shape Poem The form of this poem uses a word plan that forms the shape of the subject or the poem A Christmas Tree By Paul McCann A Christmas tree...
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An Irish Love
, An Irish Love By Paul McCann There’s nothing as kind or blind than the love of an Irish heart . There’s nothing as sure as Irish love right from...
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part 2
Mary couldn't help laughing too, the first proper laugh since that Tuesday after school when she had not been allowed to go with Mum, then everyone...
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