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Short piece of writing
The fire cracking in the middle of the Victorian furniture filled room was the only source of light as my fingers traced the familiar keys. Familiar...
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Kit Handsome and the Mysterious Strangers 5
On the count of three Kit and Anderson charged into the bank, along with a dozen of Anderson's best heist prevention officers and full translation...
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Changing Hands part 2 (revised title)
extract fron pt 1: These are the hands of your father and Grandfather and his father’s fathers. Hands that worked wood, hammered red hot steel into horse shoes, swung an axe or held the reigns of plough horses. Hard-working honest hands. You haven’t earned the right to wear hands that look like these.
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Kit Handsome and the Mysterious Strangers 4
"So let me get this straight," said Anderson when Kit phoned him asking for reinforcements from the mainland. "You think the mysterious strangers...
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People Like Us

...and it was. Image used in acc. w/ CCA2.0 Generic https://www.flickr.com/photos/67570481@N04/24369972720/
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Christmas Curfew
Just before Christmas a financial crisis presented itself on the stock exchange and investors were hit hard . Day by day the situation got worse . A...
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Christmas On A Bridge
It was very late in the evening on Christmas Eve and an exchange of human lives was being made on an old wooden bridge that was thrown over the Deep...
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Christmas At Willies
Christmas At Willies By Paul McCann I walked into the city centre with my six string under my arm . I hoped being Christmas Eve people would be...
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Cigarettes Vs. Smokeless Tobacco
People say that smokeless and chewing tobacco are just as harmful as cigarettes, but that isn't entirely true. I can tell you two things that make...
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The Day Will Come
The day will come When life has gone. Then love will claim dominium. As I search through the stars, I'll know where you are. And find you. Eternal...
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Just Another Day
Just Another Day Mam is shouting up the stairs. “Time ta get up, ya lazy bugger … time ta do tha stint t’ factory. Can’t ya ‘ear yon siren it’s...
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White Doors
A mind trapped inside a painting
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An ode to my 20-year old self
When the day taunts you with bad weather Bolt the doors and windows to save your temper Don’t play the game of guessing You will lose every round...
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The Sky
is a tenor in an orchestra of music its proud evening shades of sunshine dropping as notes in a soliloquy during twilight. The nearby farm family in...
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Kit Handsome and the Mysterious Strangers 3
W hen I've finished with Hitler I'm going to investigate the cream-mine.
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Reconciled, then fostering peace

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] So vast the chasm, huge the rift …What could he do? …to foster peace they’d now been freed!
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Its All Fair In The End Game
Its All Fair In The End Game By Paul McCann I first met Firbog on a Belfast back street during a riot in 1968. The British Army had rounded up about...
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The Bad Notes
The Bad Notes By Paul McCann Aidan and I had a duo . We called ourselves the Bad Notes . After a week in London we managed to get a gig one night in...
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