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Random Acts

Along with hundreds of others I recently submitted a short story to @twenty4stories the project which aims to raise money for PTSD (post-traumatic...

More Than Just A Little Man

More Than Just A Little Man By Paul McCann I think I caught , what you had thought . Don't put me down or make me frown . A little man is what I am...

My Parents

Lying in his hospital bed waiting Seeing nothing the stroke has claimed his mind. She sat by his bed hoping Waiting for some new event: her eyes...

Us! (for the New Hanbury Creative Writing Project)

We will last. We will see it through to the glorious never ending. We don’t flinch or as Jack Kerouac once wrote, ‘say a commonplace thing’. These...

The Poorly Children

There once were two kids who were down in the dumps 'cause one had the measles and one had the mumps and they both had to spend the whole Summer in...

His Symphony

His Symphony P K Routray Gazing at His creation with human sense and vision as well raising its power, times billion by aids blessed by the...
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Back Catalogue

poetry (?!) monthly... Picture is from Wikipedia Commons
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The Brightest Day

On Sunday came the sun; on Monday came the moon; on Tuesday came a twinkling star to tinkle us a tune. On Wednesday came the wind; on Thursday came...

Lonely Is An Unwanted Love

Lonely Is An Unwanted Love - By Paul McCann She favours him , when ever he’s around I just disappear into thin air and anything that I say it just...
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One Life

(Before you start reading I'd like you to know that this is a first draft of the story, all written in one go, so please don't mind any mistakes I...

Happy family

Life gave us all differently, yet equally. Somehow, it doesn't take a full family members to make a happy family. No, it's not saying no downfalls...

Irma Came calling- part II

Irma came calling- part II Saturday night, the howling monster crawled along the northwest coast of Cuba, devastating that rural area. The Cubans...
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I always wanted to write a story

I always wanted to write a story. I wanted to get to know the characters I made up in my mind. To laugh with them, to cry, to fall in love. To know...
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Wedding Reception

I was never the Best Man

Dollar For Your Thoughts, Part 6/14

“Wha’d ya dream about?” I was sitting in the passenger side of my state-of-the-art mid-sized Imno 400 with lunch in my lap. I told Connie that I’d...

Dollar For Your Thoughts, Part 5/14

Connie bailed and went around the back of the ramshackle cinder-block building. Then I rolled out. Soon I heard a shout from her. “Do you have a...
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Creature Comforts Part Seven

Alice noticed as she took herself away from the kitchen and into the hallway, that there were two messages on the phone. Pressing play, the first was...

The Fabulous 4 Seasons

If you've ever been to New Year city then you'll know of the 4 superheroines that are its protectors, the 4 Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and...

The Sunken City

The Sunken City By Paul McCann . The city sunk, a long time ago, perfectly preserved, deep down below . A staircase of stone descended down unto...

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