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What situation dude?
Each year at the conference, "And what is that?" The patient "It's my dog, Woofter. On his leash." "Sorry you'll have to stay a year longer." At last...
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Harboring a Criminal
The car shot out the junction on Slint like a pistol slug, cornering just in time to avoid two delivery trucks in convoy delivering tobacco leaves to...
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THE COMMONER
THE COMMONER There are different varieties of me In the azuline light, I swirl and twirl And sometimes become dim. Some favour bellis perrenis...
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The Last Seaside Holiday
... Picture has no known copyright issues. (but it isn't Withernsea)
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Bringing Charlie Back (Rewrite)
She’s come over like I asked, and now all I can do is stare at her. My gaze seems to physically agitate her. I need to say something. “Well are you...
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4th
Today my Chihuahua and I celebrate our 4th anniversary. But something happened two weeks ago that was scary. I had to rush my dog to the vet because...
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Server
'The name's Kohler', she says. I dearly want to ask her something about diets but, since I am working today I feel it would not behove my recently...
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The Unexpected Treasure
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Grimms 90
A stilted walk to the car, flared denim flapping in the wind, guns pressed one-handed, hard, against their bodies, but concealed in their coats. Del...
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Marshes
Take it easy wind wind You’re blowing echoes of Hannah’s boots in the mud The words we used for love were dust Blackened in these fields by whispered...
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Leftover love
You can give countless love to someone, yet they will leave you. In so many ways. Their lives can be short that you can't do anything. Their lives...
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The Last Minute
This dawn has no feelings. No end. It has beginnings tangled up in years and months of subtlety, of decisions taken without foreseeing this moment...
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Two Friends Lost
Orchard Lane snakes around Usk Hill, With mountain gorse; it's ever golden flower Shines though winters ice cold kiss. Springs arrival adds new...
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Tell me how:
Let me ask you this. How did you do it? How did you leave somebody you love like that? How could you treat another human being like that? How could...
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Supernatural Source
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Focus of the universe – is he the focus of our thought? who existed long before it, long before our lives so...
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Herbert The Hermit - Part 2
continued .. Herbert The Hermit Part 2 By Paul McCann ‘I fell in love once Bert . I still remember the night before the day I was married to her and...
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Herbert The Hermit - Part 1
Herbert The Hermit Part 1 By Paul McCann After graduating as a registered nurse in my chosen field of Mental Health I just moved into an upstairs...
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The Human Boy, Narrative #1
The Boy Uluru, and the Sacred Nut Far off across the great sea, in a different land altogether, something was happening. In the heart of the desert,...
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Have Faith
Dark clouds are forming overhead, a black dog is scratching at my door. "You'll get over it" they say, I'm not sure I can take much more. At every...
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My choices
Would any good come of it if I wasn't here? If I so chose it the end could be near. In this moment of confusion it's so hard to make sense, I can't...
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