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Love Never Changes
Love Never Changes By Paul McCann In a heartbeat I’d give all my life to you , all my love everyday in everything we do In a lifetime , there’s only...
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Jenny's Giggle In The Garden

Jenny's Giggle In The Garden By Paul McCann It was a quiet afternoon in Karmasville and Jenny heard the birds singing in the tree outside her window...
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The 30th Anniversary of Jack Schwartzman's Death
Jack Schwartzman had one daughter and three sons. This Producer died of Pancreatic Cancer at the age of 61. Sadly, he lost his life thirty years ago...
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Kit Handsome and a busy day in politics (1)
“My dog lacks the mental capacity to form criminal intent,” said Missy Johnson. This was going to be one of those days, thought Kit. He’d hoped for a...
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Miles Henderson Lived here (3)
The next few weeks were busy. Although the Writing Council hadn’t announced where the Henderson Festival would be held, Whitcombe was confident that...
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Intention
It’s that time again When you don’t know Who you are and where you are Looking in the mirror Closing your eyes Knowing that when you open them It...
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Silver Screen
Thursday afternoon Silver Screen, film for a fiver, at Peterhead hasn’t shown a film I’ve fancied for ages. At last, there was something I was...
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The Hunting of the Wren

It's a folk-rite of renewal. Like many, in its original form, it is unutterably savage. This is an old poem, (2015) but I've rescued it from an old hard disk because it reminds me of the clips I saw of last night's ridiculous pre-election slanging match. Image licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Image source wikipedia.org.
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Late, Late in the Evening
Late, Later in the Evening As the sunset behind the disappearance of the rune stone horizon, this moment calls for a reflection, taking a reclining...
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1:5:2 Fate (Part 3)
The initial launch lulled them into a false sense of security. They had all expected to have been thrown around the bridge, similar to pebbles in a...
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Five jokes
I phoned 999. "Fire, fire," I said. "Which service do you require?" said the voice on the other side of the phone. I said "Ambulance. A firing squad...
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Sisters.
I didn’t know I had a sister until it was too late. Snow muffled sound and the weight of the outside world. We didn’t have money for the electricity...
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Rolled-up Pair Of Socks Revisited
Tromp, tromp, tromp, tromp… Walking to the shop. It’s good for me, it’s good for me… This avenue is like some kind of creative vortex for me...
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Ways of Starting a Novel #2
"Well, well vile shrew. You're nowt to look at and you were hard to woo. But I'll say one thing for ye, You make a mighty fine tea." "Ah! It's a big...
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13 Don't You Step on my BluTacked Screws...

Sorry about that... More of Prospero Vint. Image author's own
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Days Of Our Lives
Days of Our Lives By Paul McCann We played and we prayed. We run and had fun. We back flipped and skipped We knelt and we felt okay everyday. We...
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Wild Walk
With magic lantern plans for Thursday, and the weather’s thundersome plans for Friday, today, the long walk, in the big coat, became the plan. I want...
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How Are You?
A smile How are you? I don't know where to begin Things are different now Things are harder now To say the truth would be socially unacceptable...
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Beautiful
Other people In poems Art Etc "You think I'm beautiful With no makeup Tied up greasy hair And sweatpants You see me at my ugliest And still say I'm...
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12 "Better Get a Travelodge"?

I find the ads a bit annoying. Don't you? (Old) Travelodge Logo used under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Attribution TFE Hotels, CC BY-SA 4.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0> , via Wikimedia CommonsWikipedia. Image created at canva.com
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