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Fade
FADE The light is fading on a February evening in an old industrial city in north-west Europe. The woman’s footsteps ring out as she hurries along...
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Time
Time Jennifer Pickup, 23.12.2025 Time will not wait, Does not love or hate, Shows not neglect or care, Has no reason to be fair. Time ebbs and flows...
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Fairy Nuff - A Peregrine and Prudence Christmas Story
It's Christmas Eve and Prudence is excited but she also has an unexpected visitor.
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The Island at the End of the World (ii)
A few days later, Finn did his weekly trip to the mainland, docking in the town harbour as usual. It was a bright morning - fresh and vibrant, like...
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The Island at the End of the World (i)
After his wife died, Finn MacLeod decided on a complete change of life. At fifty-eight, he knew that it was his last chance. One Friday night, he...
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Cowboys and Indians
Chapter 1: The Great Outdoors Josh sprawled out, his head cushioned by a rock, feeling every bit the rugged cowboy. He glanced over at Barry, who,...
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A Father Who Was A Scrooge
It was a terrible thing that a horrible man did. He never bought Christmas gifts for his kids. Some people called him a Scrooge and others called him...
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A Father's Christmas...
A seasonal poem about someone who is not happy about the 'winterfest'...
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Life Is Good In Our House
Life Is Good In Our House By Paul McCann' Life around our little home gets busier everyday with activities and people calling in to say G’day. We...
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Driving Home for Chris
Fish and ducks and rock and roll.
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Seedpods On Luniasa
Seedpods On Luniasa By Paul McCann Don , Margaret , Alan , Cecil and Jackie were five of the world’s leading scientific based horticulturists who...
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Colonies
Time. Time had obviously passed since the last memory. The campus was now home to nineteen Lores and nineteen Chars; it had grown somewhat, now...
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Christmas
Christmas time your making all my dream come true just being with you I am so happy I am with you and when I look at the stars in the sky they remind...
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Christmas Is Coming
A Poem For The Young At Heart Just a bit of fun to welcome the Season. Whilst up on the hillside ridge of snow, Could clearly see my house down below...
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Trip to see 'The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe' Stirs Many Memories and Passions for Alfred Muggins!
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17/10/25 At the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield, the city of his birth, and most of his life, even though much of the city centre was now unrecognisable...
Pondering above the Wye
Winter vista through bare trees … Hills surround, unmoved – they witness lush fields dormant, city restless – …
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Art History
A story of love, loss and tenderness...
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Holly and Oak
The sun, wrapped tight in swaddling bands Cradles low where the shadows dwell As the Holly King at his glorious peak Stirs sleeping limbs with...
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Tom All Alone (8) (ii)
The dinner was the next most exciting part of Christmas for Tom. He loved all the rituals of it. Dad carving up the turkey and putting some on each...
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Tom All Alone (8) (i)
Continuing my novel based on my childhood in South London in the 1960s. Christmas Day. Nan's scullery downstairs sweated and heaved with the heat and...
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