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What Would I Take? Part Two.
If I were in a dire situation, be it on land or at sea, what one thing would I grab, if I had to flee for my life? If I had the chance to take two...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 6
The days in Piornal had started to feel more settled for Sebastian and Oliver, yet the village still held its secrets. The winding streets, the...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 5
By the time autumn had fully bathed Piornal in golds and reds, Sebastian and Oliver had carved out a niche for themselves in the village. The locals...
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You Helped Me To Forget
You Helped Me To Forget By Paul McCann I still remember that day that you came my way when love came to me in a very special way I’ve never forgotten...
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The Lumbers Of Love
The Lumbers Of Love By Paul McCann We held on to our faith through thick and thin in all the situations we were in . We worked together in the...
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Between Me And you
Between Me And you By Paul McCann Between me and you there , across the peace line we would all go for there was nothing more to do and we all run...
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What Would I Take?
It all seems a bit sketchy, it felt to me, like bits of news, here and there. The news that came to me, seemed to me did not seem to start at the...
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the claimant.
That morning, a husband and wife team—physiotherapist and psychologist—shot him a glance in the stairwell. Dr Sim always took the stairs. He knew...
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Beauty in the forgotten
In the gallery of thoughts, where opinions are brushstrokes, each hue a touch of the self, I stand, palette in hand, unfurling my own colours, bold...
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Withnail & I 2: Beer and Loving in Penrith (1)
I recently completed a script for a sequel to the 1987 cult comedy 'Withnail & I'. It is set 30 years after the original film - on the cusp of...
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Pareidolia
Look into the flames, and what do you see? Horses and dragons flash in and flee, faces and castles seem to appear for an instant, then disappear?...
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Shorthand conversations
You ask me about the kids I went to school with over thirty years ago I see them sometimes in the street And sometimes wave hello and sometimes do nt...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 4
Sebastian and Oliver arrived back in Extremadura with two suitcases and a dream so vivid it nearly popped like a soap bubble the moment they stepped...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 3
The moment they stepped off the plane, England’s undeniably rich greenery did its best to win back their hearts, but their newfound passion was too...
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run-of-the-mill sexual assault.
I guess it was a classic run-of-the-mill sexual assault. I hadn’t thought about it in a long while. Until one of my wife’s friends said something,...
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A Portrait of Grace and Dignity
Grace and Dignity from an American President The multiple thousands of delegates, from all across the far-flung corners of America and gathered in a...
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Dad's funeral during Covid
Got to the car park of the cemetery The cardboard coffin and my family We walk it in and lay it down Pandemic seating with too much space around A...
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The Staggers
'The Staggers did me father/and his old dad before -/now I’m the one to suffer/nature’s uncommon law.’
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 2
Inspired by their encounter, Sebastian and Oliver decided to book a trip to Piornal. They had always seen themselves as adventurers of sorts, yet now...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 1
Sebastian and Oliver found themselves where they always were at this time on a Friday evening, at the swankiest supermarket Dorking had to offer...
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