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The Visit
The Visit By Paul McCann The trees brushed up against the windows of the cottage and the rain battered the shutters from their hinges. The thatched...
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Dublin Jack
Dublin Jack By Paul McCann Brought up in poverty and kept ignorant was the only way to remain healthy back then in the hungry years . The hardest...
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The Wedding Speech
The Wedding Speech By Paul McCann So I was walking out the door and the phone rang .It was one of those occasions when I was in two minds wondering...
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Island Hideaway 40 - You can see the sea
"I can't believe you own this island, it's beautiful. And you own the dodos. Every dodo in the world belongs to you." "No, I just own the island...
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Island Hideaway 39 - Endings and beginnings
Mo left Eric the day he finished his final exam. "I didn't want to be the cause of his screwing up God," she explained. "You don't seem too...
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Island Hideaway 38 - The biggest war there ever was
Eddie returned a few nights later, unannounced as always. We were highly boat aware by this point and Mo had asked all dodos to look out for boats...
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Wake up!
Chapter 1 He was eerily gorgeous. His shaggy hair was as black as midnight and his almond eyes as green and brilliant as emeralds. He was tall and...
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Makes yer proud
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The Free Market (Part 2)
The way the sand felt under Christian’s feet, fine and warm and clean; the way it moulded to the impact of his heels, the balls of his feet, the...
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The Free Market (Part 1)
A clothed orgy every morning. Hell. Zone 1. If Picasso painted bodily odours… Christian Weaver enlivened his morning commute by inventing USPs —...
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Unfinished flow
Unfinished flow Hey Ishani! thoughts twine head spins to pen a few lines for you, to draft out of my heart as we move apart to bless you to start...
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Left For Dead
The great depression had finally lifted and things were picking up. A baby boom brought with it the demand for bigger houses. People with trades...
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Roo’s On The Veranda
Howard and Mae were only married two years when the war came. They had been blessed with a little boy they had named Darwin. The call went out for...
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Family Theatre
We beg. We borrow. It seems like there’s no lengths or depths we won’t go to give the performance of our lives. We borrow some place mats, and...
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Mira’s Reign Over Tara
A heavy stone was placed over the grave where the King had been buried . Mira and a few other warriors cast their swords into the soil and walked...
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Milo Chapter Ten
Chapter Ten Milo was up early and thought there would be no one else about yet, but he was wrong. His mother was sitting alone at the table on the...
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my child...my D..o..r..o..th..y
my child...my Dorothy #2 enfolding...held within love’s celestial floating echoes entwined...muffled hearts beating time within time... through time...
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What is Toxic Love......?
It is hurt on every level, of mind, body and spirit. It is fake smiles, on Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram. It is confusion, false hope, glimpses of...
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The Decline of Civilisation (Ch.16e) : Democracy of Managers
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Democracy of Managers : Ch.16e 26/3/00 The modern world had become inseparable from free democracy. Every citizen exercised a vote for public...
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"Will ye no come back again...?"
This story was conceived the other day, when I drove through my old home town of Burton upon Trent and noticed that this had actually happened at a well-known funeral director's. I couldn't believe my eyes and I wondered what Archibald and Josiah might have to say about it...
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