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Clyde Built
There’s silence noo. Mibbe he’s gied up. Christ, he wisnae very persistent. The only sound is the tickin ay the cloack oan the mantelpiece. The door...
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The Take Away Two Step
The Take Away Two Step In year’s past, when eating out, diners would often sheepishly ask a waiter for a small bag, to package leftovers from their...
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The Lad From Pointe de Bute (Chap. 16)
SIXTEEN All of those thoughts and incidents continued to occupy my mind as I skipped along the trail aside the men working on the ocean shore...
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The Lad from Pointe de Bute (Chap. 14-15)
FOURTEEN In my next day at school-time, I found myself not so popular with questions from my mates. To my dismay, others did not wish to be reminded...
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The Lad from Pointe de Bute (Chap. 10-13)
TEN Accurate news of the ship Hector was late in coming, and caused a stir among the farms. A visitor who was a passenger had arrived in our...
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Gold & Ivory
Robert Gold was doing well. His business had taken off, but quite where the money for investment had come from was anybody's guess. Some thought he...
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COVID 19 DIARIES
This morning! The rescued fox story really moved me. Yes, its face was stuck in a plastic container. And yes, plastic pollution and the air pollution...
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Flamin’ Nora- Terra Incognita (2)
Flamin’ Nora- Terra Incognita (2) “It is only Flamin' Nora, ma!” Said Moira “Oh ignore her love, she is probably out of sugar again.” The mother...
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The Doctor
He was my first doctor at outpatients he had assisted in the shock therapy he knew me. I was devastated. Even then already he warned of drinking and...
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The Girl With Rose-Coloured Hair
To the girl with rose-coloured hair, How do you float around so seamlessly, Beautifully aware of your destruction? How is your voice a distant echo...
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Gerard
Ink stains warp into fluid black tendrils Slithering down my throat and pooling in my guts I want to throw the words back up at you But instead they...
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My Wife's Damn Violin
My wife is extremely bad at playing the violin. I hope that I go deaf and can never hear again. Even though she's terrible at playing the violin, she...
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Helter Skelter
It all began so very well on this blossomed Easter Day. Which led to a misunderstanding - in a quietened, difficult way. Tiptoeing the Pacific...
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We Blossom and Flourish
It was during the Pandemic that Gary began to be aware of his mortality. He was 57, not really that old, late middle age possibly, not yet elderly ,...
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The Lad from Pointe de Bute (Chap. 7-9)
SEVEN “Do you think there be some kind of war?” I asked Mattie a few days later. Ever since Da uttered the possibility, it had been like a worm...
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The Lad from Pointe de Bute (Chap. 4-6)
FOUR My broad hat always remained on a peg, when company arrived. “Ye are not a child,” mum chastised one day. “And so mind your manners, especially...
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The Visit To Ascetinia
The Visit To Ascetinia A short story by Paul McCann For most of his life Mackbah Cahoun had tried to help others but when he was in real need of help...
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The Lad from Pointe de Bute (Chap. 1-3)
Novel Historical Fiction for Young Readers 8-12 THE LAD FROM POINTE DE BUTE By Esther and Richard Provencher COPYRIGHT: © 2014-2021 by Esther and...
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The Oracle
The mountain range seemed as far away as ever. A dozen native bearers had died in the jungle, victims of disease, snake bites and eating too many...
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Goodbye
He drifted out of sight, the abundant cloud I’d been watching all morning—who, on his way, shed small parts in favour of a sleeker physique. The wind...
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