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What I Admire About Manila
What I Admire About Manila By Paul McCann . Driving around Manila the ethos of a nation can be seen everywhere you go its seen on billboards and...
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Something New
Something New By Paul McCann . Something new , a place to go or a thing to do , somewhere different to where I’ve been . Something new , a venture to...
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The Next Great American Novel
Part II The Next Great American Novel Dad once said to me, “Stay in school, Jim. Learn as much as you can. Figure out what small ways you can make...
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The Return of Oscaloo (Part 2)
The place was an early 1960s fever dream. After opening the utility closet and getting past an ersatz circuit breaker, Alice, Diedrich, and Chief...
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The Return of Oscaloo (Part 1)
Alice Forster loved teacups. She had teacups of all kinds in her collection. Ceramic. Porcelain. Glass. Steel. Bone china. Plastic. Wood. And with...
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The Right to Sparkle
‘You can’t ask her, there’s no point, she’s gaga!’ ‘Please don’t say that, Mike, it’s disrespectful and Dr Greaves said, we don’t really know what...
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Red Bicycle 1-2
In a minor city in an unnamed country, Alexander arrives home from school and receives news that will change his life. Parts 1-2 of 22.
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Rest In Peace, Mom - Part VI
It was a day that I was bound to dread. I woke up in the hospital and found you dead. I told the nurse that I thought you had died and she examined...
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American Civil War
From "Buffalo Beacher's -Joseph Xavier Martin Civil war is coming In the early part of 1860, Buffalo, like most of the nation, knew that war was...
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The Tall Bookcase
A tall story. (Based on a true occurrence) - Image from Pixabay.
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Turmoil
Clouds gather within a windy channel its speed measured by a landscape’s design storm ascending to an uncertain plan hurled from the Western Canada...
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An impossible Situation
Fresh from a long sea holiday everybody was very surprised when I arrived and reported for duty to be met with a disciplinary hearing and finding out...
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Supernatural but knowable
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] on Psalm 33 To praise God is right, and joyfully sing. His all-scanning sight knows who hope in him – don’t...
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Springtime in the Golden Country
Part 1 Springtime in the Golden Country It was a mild April day in Western NY. The windows were rolled near half way down in the family Oldsmobile...
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Numbers Three, Four, Five, Six , Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten ......
Anyone who has had cats will know they bring home gifts. Why do they do that? Why don’t they just enjoy their catch in the garden? Its an age old...
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Covid Morning 2000
Remembering what it was like during the pandemic...
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Ecounter(z) chap-33 <stripped>
A blast from the past, redefining the present, what you see is not what you get, encounters of the Island kind. And for the Lifeguard Captain, DJ,...
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Undervalued potato?
Nutritious fruit (tomatoes, bananas, apples …) and valued veg: tubers and tap roots – like the humble spud, edible leaves (cabbage …) seeds (peas and...
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Seat M 15
I thought it ironic that the part of my anatomy that some say I use to talk with should rest on a seat with a tale to tell..
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