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Ugly Puggly 49
Cold outside with a hint of rain. Smirry. Our conversations usually involved the weather, even though most folk now worked inside. Dave was at my...
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To Paddy
Suzie loved food. She loved everything about it; looking at it, eating it, and most importantly cooking it. Her favourite thing in the world was to...
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The Peaceful Solution
The Peaceful Solution by Paul McCann . Everybody’s looking for an answer maybe you’ve got the one they’re looking for. There’s a way to peace there’s...
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Ebreon
They always drowned the men. That’s what she was always told. They looked into their eyes and then they swept them down into the depths, they mated...
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The Giant Who Roared Back
The Giant Who Roared Back by Paul McCann I was just sitting there upon the rocks that were scattered all around the sea shore , defiant like an elf...
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Goldenrod and Wild Aster
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Chemo
Of all the treatments associated with cancer, I have been most apprehensive about having chemo. You seldom hear people say that it was a good...
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Shine On
. Shine On By Paul McCann We were restrained in COVID chains with so many different strains contradictions from Doctors strange restrictions that...
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Arch-Liar
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Fake news! deceit and lies abound; such poison everywhere is found: misjudgments, rumours, slander stirs up...
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The Miracle of Maldon (Part One of Three)
Draft for a 3-part story. The Miracle of Maldon (Part One of Three) The moon hung low in a blue sky, an intruder on a twilight horizon. The day was...
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Traces of us
Yesterday I spent the afternoon at a memorial event for a friend and colleague who died during the first lockdown in 2020. The memorial was attended...
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The Tenth Anniversary Of Andy Griffith's Death
Andy Griffith found success when he starred in "The Andy Griffith Show". That sitcom is still popular today and it was created over sixty years ago...
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Ugly Puggly 48
I went outside to have a gander at where we’d buried the body. The grass around the decking was overlong, more like weeds. A chestnut tree on the...
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Dear Dad
Dear Dad, I am writing you this letter so you can take into account the experiences in my life which have shaped me into the woman I am today, You...
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Boxing Clever?
Josiah surveys the competition whilst Archibald edges forward.
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Let me share your tears
don't shut me out i am here won't you open up inside and let me see the real you don't be scared i am here i am not going anywhere i am here will you...
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On The Wagon
“On the Wagon” You often hear the phrase “on the wagon” in conversation. It is usually a pithy reference to a now abstemious person who had...
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The Lost Years
2022 I finally arrived…the penthouse suite no less. I looked to my left and saw a stern-faced guard stare back at me, the black cloth bag that was...
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Harvest Mouse
Within fields of wheat, corn and barley; there's hushed efficiency, seeds shall be gathered and consumed; sometimes emerging in daytime's summer heat...
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I Am Free
I’m free…but for how long? I can feel the snow crunch under my boots as I run for the hills, my bag banging against my back with every stride. I look...
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