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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...

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...

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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Yard Sale Chapter 3

A tale of woe, deceit, heartbreak, and happyness

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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