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"Brighter Than The Noon Day Sun."

I remember when I was going to night class many years ago and it was dark and very foggy. I didn't get very far, when the first bus arrived, the...
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Childhood Toys

Old and new.
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence Oblong's peculiar quirk
It’s morning. I crawl unenthusiastically out of bed, go downstairs to make toast and coffee, catch sight of the sun, which makes me sneeze. I sneeze...
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The End is Not Nigh Enough
You have to sand a second time, once the wood filler is dry. Didn’t take very long, but still creates horrible clean-up. Painting however, all white...
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The Giant
Six foot eight. Two hundred pounds in weight. That’s the first image that came to folks' minds when Big John’s name was spoken. No longer were giants...
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The Lost Manuscript 3
Dark was darker than death when you were younger. Light a flashbulb. No fat kids. No coloured kids, unless it was the black babies’ pictures you...
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The Chilling of Louise

This is an older tale from 2011. I'm sure I had posted it on the site, but couldn't find it. It's had a slight tweak since. I'd been going through...
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Walking on Sunshine (Dead Reckoning series - Part 29)

In which the Detectives and Josiah are feeling the after-effects of their watery ordeal and D.I. Wood dreams of sun, sand and...Sergeants?
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1:5:5 Forgotten (Part 7)
Eventually, Ow’oo returned; it’s helmeted head peered out from behind the door’s window. Ow’oo vanished but soon reappeared as the doors started to...
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Parcel for you....Part 36
Vanessa had brought her husband a smart new jacket for their hotel stay, fashioned from leather in dark brown, not too trendy but a change from his...
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Are We There Yet?
Weather, from Wednesday to Friday, was forecast fine and sunny. Just the conditions for sanding, prepping and painting the outside of the wee weird...
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Cry Of The Workers
Cry Of The Workers By Paul McCann He was collecting some of the natural wild herbs that grew on the edge of the mountain . It was always a little...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Reflection

I'm continuing with the final draft of 'Gift' - my memoir/journal based on my time as my mother's full-time carer for the last few months of her life...
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Dragon-dinos

Under a carpet in Carlisle cathedral aisle a brass plate over a marble tomb (about 500 years old); engraved with a dog, a fish, a bird, an eel and two mythical creatures (it is said) — or are they? …Did Saint George kill a dinosaur?
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Ex Crete

More whimsy, this time from the second half of September 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.
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In Daddy’s Arms
In Daddy’s Arms Paul McCann There were 6 children under five years of age in the family home and there was no escape .The mother never stopped all...
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Incubus

Once thought to be a myth
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Yard Sale Chapter 3

A tale of woe, deceit, heartbreak, and happyness
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Rain beats
Rain beats incessantly, October here before September begun. A flood of feeling, Like Summer. Gone. Trees creating lines like broken glass Across...
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A Year With the Brighouse Stars Walking Club - Farewell Our Lionel
Warning. Readers of the previous adventures of the Brighouse Stars Walking Club may find that the following episode induces feelings of overwhelming...
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