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The Ascent of a Dog Rose

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Maria's Diary 1
Just a note about how this book came about. I haven't written anything substantial for about the last three years, but with Covid restrictions, I was...
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Don't be Too Happy - There's a Law Against It
Think of your favourite song, and hum it. Smile and your popularity will summit. Grin too long and your stock will plummet. Laugh too long and they'...
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Faced with Life Choices

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Lot chose the best, and left the rest to Abraham. In Sodom, though, he soon would know deep problems come. When faced with choice heed scripture’s voice …
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Crawling Back
. Crawling Back By Paul McCann Don’t tell me you’re sorry when you’re not . You wrote the book and I’ve read the lot . Saying sorry’s no good anymore...
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Mother Of Light And Wonder
. Mother Of Light And Wonder By Paul McCann . Mother of light and wonder there are so many things in this world that you can arrange for the innocent...
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Welcome Home
. Welcome Home By Paul McCann . Come on , come on , come on and on come on , come on home , Its been too long, too long since you’ve been gone , So...
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I Want
to curlicue in a current of wind soaring gliding trading up and down thermals born in the energizing beginnings of time when glaciers grew into...
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Hawk

A damn hawk swooped down and swiped my baby. He flew away with my son and I don't mean maybe. Two days later, I grabbed my rifle when I saw that hawk...
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Stream of Consciousness
Clover, dover, sackcloth, stuff of dreams, docks, shipping forecast, does anyone sail - anymore? Been numb so long, heartbreak does that to you and...
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Come Wind, Come Weather! - Episode 19

In which Aefelthrith has her doubts and Gwladys is at a loss!
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Red Sky
And now for the weather forecast...
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Let the Children Play
Visitors to Flanders will be struck by the number of First World War cemeteries, some large and grand with thousands of graves, some small and intimate with just dozens, in towns, villages, and in corners of farmers' fields. The residents of that part of Belgium and France go about their daily lives alongside and among the fallen, and for some local children, the cemeteries are their playgrounds...
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Flight From Death
. Paul F. McCann Flight From Death Just like Biggles he wanted to be, Like a bird up in the sky, flying free. He took in some training and soon...
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It's Called The Outback
. Paul F. McCann It’s Called The Outback Some like the city: some like the scrub. Some like to bath in an old steel tub. Some celebrate in a local...
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Roadblocks On The Highway
Paul F. McCann Roadblocks On The Highway It was Sunday night and July was cold, The year was 88, when the truckies put up the barricades round the...
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Jumping to Assumptions

He thought he saw – and told his friends – a floating, waving ghost. They looked themselves and saw it was washed clothes caught round a post. He...
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Ginny. Part 2. the stranglers’ underpants

And it was that Summer, death of mother, metamorphosis from boy into girl and back again, that Ginny and Charles posted a notice on the board of...
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Disenchantment 25
***** Perry had lived for weeks in the meadow before she had moved to the throne room, or she thought it was weeks. Time had a way of not making much...
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