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The Last Day Of The Year
2020 is about to end, this is the last day of the year. During the last 366 days, there has been much fear. Many people have suffered because of...
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Symphony Of Emotions
When encountering sadness violins that rain down like a waterfall of tears cascading in sympathy, instinctively understanding this essence from...
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Toddler opening presents
When you are one it’s really fun to tear off the paper to find what’s inside there. … And then that bag they put the wrapping paper in …
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Golden Memories: Nightclubs
Ah, Golden Mammaries (oops - where's that proof reader?). These would have to include a few nightclubs, the first of which we used to call the Pea...
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Happy New Year
It’s 23:17 at least that’s what my phone says. People don’t wear watches these days, do they? It’s pretty busy in here tonight but what do you expect...
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Walnut
2018 Walnut I Juglans, jovus glans. Literally, Jupiter’s nuts. It’s nice to see men haven’t changed in two thousand years. I imagine your namer has...
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Away from Dresden
2007. Away from Dresden Echolalia of curse on curse, seething my breath back into the wind clench and grind the uneasy gnawing of the chain at the...
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Teleology
Waterloo, ON, Canada, 2008. Teleology The bus shudders onto the shoulder of the road, rain-shivered, lamplight sprawling its accidental...
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. Nine Months
. Nine Months By Paul McCann Big woman with child . Nine months and a baby smiled . Nine months and the big moment had arrived with style . After...
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Womb To Grow
Womb To Grow By Paul Mc Cann Life lies there like a seed slowly growing . Within the womb without hardly knowing , a small baby is all wrapped up and...
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Yesterdays Bloomers
,' Yesterdays Bloomers - By Paul McCann No one can mock what the eye cannot see . Stitch up your bloomers as fast as can be . Bloomers still mock...
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Come Visit Good
ole Larry – new resident at the Nursing Home – capable of dispensing wisdom on life and natural instincts he’s excited about the move – thought about...
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The New Year
The New Year On the 31 st of December in the coming year of our Lord, 2021, we will begin a new year. As I contemplate the beginnings of the New Year...
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The Path From Tree Hill (3/5)
I looked at the cream walls, the grey carpet, the plasterboard, and the patterns and shapes lying beneath . Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Back and Forth
From past to present makes me smile how we dillied and dallied with time by our side. The past held many vigorous moments and in later years so glad...
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The ticket (Chapter One)
Martha could tell it was a train ticket immediately form the way it fell from the man’s hand: not in a flutter but a sort of rapid spin, in quick circles, like a whirligig.
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20.2 Independence
Mr D C Ron Waite, appointed political official by Secretary Sanders, scrambled within the atoll and walked in through the doors without knocking...
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I'm Out of Here!
A JAWS Short Story for @theDailyJaws #NaNoWriMo challenge 2020 (This very short one was a very quick afterthought following a dream I had and may in...
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The Worst That Could Happen
"The Worst That Could Happen" A JAWS Short Story for @theDailyJaws #NaNoWriMo challenge 2020...
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Bubble Trouble
An ekphrastic poem inspired by John E. Millais painting "Bubbles"
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