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The Day before Milton arrives
The Day before Hurricane Milton arrives It is Tuesday, the eighth of October, in the year of our Lord, 2024. The rains had started last night and...
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The Girl Who Liked Walking Through The Woods
The Girl Who Liked Walking Through The Woods By Paul McCann She always loved walking in the woods surrounded by trees in the silence of a lonely...
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Movie Monday - That's my Fun Day
Continued the long weekend into Monday and went to see ‘The Outrun’ at Number 30 cinema in Huntly. The film made me want to go to a rave and to go...
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Kathleen, Gladly, Teleri
… the ‘Kathleen’ substitution! … the eyes of the bear were probably rather close together … A tom-boy, but …
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The Nightclub Job
The Nightclub Job By Paul McCann At the corner of Ladyking Drive and Adkins Street Hughie stood at the front door of O’Shea’s nightclub every night...
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The Year of the Rabbit
It's also the winter of the frogs.
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The Whisperers
The Whisperers by Paul McCann Some strange insects were seen coming out of drains around the city . A reporter from the tv news channel Billy Hughes...
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I Did Not Expect That.
I had been with my Mum for 5 days, last week during the heavy rain I had got my feet wet. I decided today to buy some lightweight waterpoof shoes. I...
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Prospecting
Removed for submission
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Magic Of Youth
Dear diary...she comes and goes like an old song from the past... my younger self making dreamy moments captured in essential one time photos. For...
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Weathering the Maelstrom
Weathering The Maelstrom It is Monday, the seventh of October, in the year of our Lord, 2024. We are living now in Southwest Florida. The rains had...
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Many Ways with Squash
Saturday, went to the feedback session of the Fantasy Writing Workshop. (Sounds like it wasn’t a real thing). Consensus, I created good descriptions...
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The Calculator (IP)
The tram was packed, as always, a shifting mass of humanity wedged together on their way to somewhere else. A family sat near the front, the parents...
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Bodach
Hello. Hello. Wake up. Why won’t she wake up? I glanced around, unease curling in my stomach. The staircase creaked with ominous whispers. No, Joey...
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Between Shakey’s And Home
Between Shakey’s And Home By Paul McCann Jake was always a little adventurous and decided one day to go for trip to a place he had never gone before...
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Tinny’s Knock On The Door
Tinny’s Knock On The Door By Paul McCann Tinny was always a lucky kind of guy with things . At ten years of age he asked the local milkman if he...
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Cataract
Over the years, I have heard of people having cataracts removed from their eyes. A young friend in her 60's is having hers removed this week. My...
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Walking The Walk
Ian had been putting off taking his walk for a walk. How it had nudged him over and over, pulling at his clothes and spinning around his ankles all...
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Tom All Alone (5) (ii)
It was a hard decision. But a month later saw her sailing out of Liverpool on the Royal George with everything she owned in the world crammed into a...
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Tom All Alone (5) (i)
As Tom got older, they would sometimes find different things to do in the evenings. Mum might sit him on her lap in the back room, and they'd try to...
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