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The World is Closed

The world is closed now Don’t come Last orders were called But still you ordered more As if there was no tomorrow And there wasn’t You’ve had a...
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My spot.
A man with unruly blond hair and a ginger beard was sitting in my spot when I entered the cafe today. Moreover, the lout had his feet up on the seat...
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The Sydney Traffic Connection
The Sydney Traffic Connection by Paul McCann Another man made marvel , an engineering feat , steering its way from North to South and East To West ,...
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The Road Hog
The Road Hog By Paul McCann I pulled over there on the side of the road with an overheated engine . I had no idea of my whereabouts as I had been...
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Novemberly thinking.
As this short, sad November day begins to draw quietly to an unremarkable close, the sun comes out and fills the garden with a strange, wet, yellow...
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At Home with the Rhizomes

Back to life. Back to reality. Back to writing exactly one hundred words per day.
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The Day She Chose to Be Good
She decided, the moment the alarm went off, that today would be different. Not different in the way she sometimes meant - the vague, hungover “I’ll...
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Red, red wine.
A mollitious warmth stole through my inward parts this evening as I directed a river of red Italian wine down my throat. Although it was an...
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genesis
Rage does not go away It turns outward or inward Rage does not go away It creates hung-faced horrors of us all Rage does not go away It roots itself...
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The Lamb of God who …

… takes away the sin of the world. [Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] They went to Pilate’s palace with hazy accusation. It was the date to celebrate God’s rescue of the nation. … their trial of this man unjustly held – Christ Jesus, predicted Passover Lamb …
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An Artistic Expression

An Artistic Expression by Paul McCann The depiction of still life there in a art form for all to share , some fruit on a silver platter whatever the...
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Nessie Saves The Day

This is a true story, and readers, I was there… Every bank holiday at the end of May, the Gloucestershire village of South Cerney has a Duck Race, in...
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Easter 2025 by Alfred N.Muggins (Rogue Reporter (please don’t shoot me, I’m only the armchair journalist))
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1/5/25 Easter came in even more haste than usual, it seemed to Alfred, who liked, in recent years, to write something appropriate to this time of...
Bucharest and all that.
A man sits at a small, round table outside a café in the busy Macca Vilacrosse arcade – hardly a noteworthy sight. On the table sits the empty cup...
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Empathy
Having been accused of reckless driving, once we were working the whole morning and getting tired, Prof Sauer said call it a day for lunch I said “...
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FAIRY CAKES

I want to eat stale fairy cakes Crushing silver balls in my molars Annihilating all hopes of sophistication Crumbling among old mercurial fillings...
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Release from storms

Tossing, restless … suddenly … ike a boat tossed by stormy riot … stillness …
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Saturday Night's Alright for Peaches

As I swilled back a final deoch an dorais in the cosy and serenely atmospheric old bar, my mind was puzzled by how much a city could have changed in under half a century. Or perhaps it was me and my mind that had changed.
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standing outside the window.
Book of Job 17: My days are past, my purposes are broken off, I miss me. even the thoughts of my heart. The way I used to be. They change the night...
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