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Conditions That Please or Displease Flowers
In the heart of a clean room, where sunlight spills, A window frames the world, a clear portal to dreams, Here, flowers blossom, nurtured by tender...
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The Letter.
A friend, she has no internet, no smartphone, no laptop, no passwords, has never bought anything on-line, does not drive. So, there is no...
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Chapter 8: The Abyss Within
It started as a vague worry, the kind that creeps up on you in the quiet moments and takes root in the back of your mind. Clyde was missing. Not just...
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Chapter 7: Discovering new routines
Days on the Leviathan bled into one another, each one an indistinguishable echo of the last. Time had a way of warping out here in the middle of...
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Chapter 6: Unearthed Secrets
The Leviathan groaned as we touched down on her rusted deck, the helicopter’s blades whipping the air into a frenzy before finally settling into...
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The Man Who Wore A Hundred Hats
None of them suited him, which was his aim, being a king contrarian, but he wore them in rotation just the same. The bowler hat, he found, was best...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 21
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 21 The Slave He sat by far enough from the clifftop to appreciate the view of the five loughs that lay...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 20
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 20 The Monk On the road he walked among places between the mountains and sea . As the sun began to set...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 19
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 19 The Gibilley Gooks In a boat on the ocean, he sat alone thinking of timers that were long gone and...
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Dyslexic.
Yesterday I went to the train station, I told the ticket man at the window, where I would like to go and said, “What time does the off-peak end today...
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Left Handed Day.
Yesterday was Left-Handed Day! That caught my eyes as I read about this man. He was and is very famous. He was the top of his game. As time went by,...
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Give Him A Medal.
A few years ago, my son wanted to be a security guard. I begged him not to do it, as it can be very dangerous. Thankfully I was able to talk him out...
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La Tomatino versus The Terminator
In less complicated times a typical robot was made of tin, stood about twenty cms high, trundled back and forth on squeaky little wheels, swivelled...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 18
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 18 The Lake Dweller The storyteller never had a map but his instincts told him which way he had to go...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 17
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 17 The Wolf Of Cushean The storyteller was on his way to the Fiddlers Well where he had promised...
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The Storyteller - Chapter 16
The Storyteller A Novel By Paul McCann Chapter 16 The Wishing Well One summer night as he was on the road to Castle Hill, he was singing a song to...
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A hundred moments in autism - The Topless photo of Germaine Greer
Every few days I look at a topless photo of Germaine Greer. It is a common trait among autists to return to a favourite piece of music over and over...
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Leviathan
Leviathan I had been scrolling for what seemed like hours. Each post scanned seemed darker than the last. Reading wall-to-wall invective wasn’t good...
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A garden is …
… a haven, unconfined, giving rest of mind: beauty and utility, flowers or veg, cultivated or wild, fence or hedge – and for a child a place for...
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A Year with the Brighouse Stars Walking Club (December)
December So Gordon then. Back in the day – the very early days of the walking club – the lads called him Galloping Gordon. He was something of a...
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