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A Free Lunch [Some words from Liar's Kingdom]
Some words from the middle of Liar's Kingdom - about 22 pages further on in the manuscript. I always have a "bolt-hole" manuscript, for when the main project isn't going well. Liar's Kingdom is now performing this function for Prospero Vint. I've put this with the early parts of LK which I posted on here nearly 10 years ago Image is PD from Wikipedia
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Frightfully funny?
Why do the shops and schools, and Homes fill with giggles at ghouls and gore and ugly imaginary frights for shuddering at shadows, but say it’s all...
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The White Knight Walk
Saturday afternoon, post-market, the day still glorious, given the storm warnings, and the need to walk off a fig and prosciutto pastry, took The...
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Weather Report
Well, hello and good morning to viewer ye. This is mostly about thee and me. You may have noticed a new frock or three One so tight I can't have a...
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On The Bright Side
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Tom All Alone (6) (ii)
Mum stopped working at Gibney's and took another job cleaning at the pub where she and dad used to go in the evenings. On some days she took him with...
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Tom All Alone (6) (i)
Then there were days when different things happened. Days when dad would take him out on the lorry when he did forage deliveries around the city and...
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Weather App. Haiku # 17
Sun and wind compete Weatherwise a better day A feelgood factor!
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Street Games From Another Time
Street Games From Another Time By Paul McCann In another time that seems so distant now we used to play games of one kind or another around the...
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On the bright side (IP)
Woke up late for the job interview, No shower, no breakfast, no time for a brew. The clock sneered ten; I cursed, I ran, But on the bright side, I...
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Figurehead
I ride the hag back
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My Father Is Younger Than Me
It had been sixty years since I last saw him
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Is That Even Allowed?
Brought in a ringer allowable. Saturday was Foggie Farmer’s Market. Thought, ‘no spend, no go’. Then thought, it’ll be all Hallowe’en-y, there are...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (ii)
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)
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
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
A break in the storm? Bright sunbursts through windblown cloud. Has Ashley moved on?
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Mixed Up Girl
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
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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