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03.3 The Staging Post
Virgo was appointed as prime minister by Sultan Mal Vatta on 12 th December 1957. Virgo was thirty-one years old. His immediate demand was that the...
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Hidden Away
. Hidden Away By Paul McCann Mr and Mrs Czubara lived with their seven children on a farm in Poland and enjoyed a quiet life . When the war broke out...
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Not enough
There are as Many numbered breaths Sheltering under your lips As there are Seashells without songs Kept in the cupboards There are as Many secrets...
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gimme shelter
tangling ivy and bramble branches throttle my back garden and buried in the far corner is the air-raid shelter my grandparents used to save...
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Golden Memories: the Professor
While I was growing up in the 1960's, we lived next door to a rather eccentric family. They were often referred to in the local paper, so it seemed...
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Murder At Sundown
. Murder At Sundown - by Paul McCann . Up the corridor he walked in and out of rooms , as the long shadows arrived in the afternoons . At sundowning...
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Season's Advent
Dawn is creating silhouettes in layers of invitation- sky’s afire with promise and decks stacked in lobster pots - slatted barriers bait primed-...
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Will Trump disappear in a puff of smoke if he loses?
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Will Trump disappear in a puff of smoke if (or when?) he loses? The show must go on! Like the wizard of Oz! Engineered in the halls of hell, A demon...
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Retirement options for tube trains, #7, Foulness Island
the North Sea rolls out flat and silver like virgin tin foil.
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Zombie Apocalypse
The Anti-Zombie Dominance Plan. - This started its life as a poem but it has been changed to 340-words flash fiction.
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At The East Lake Where I'm Often Drunk, Thoroughly
Make a run for cherry blossom season once all the books are closed Tourists on campus marvel at bubblegum webs while military drills Ring out in the...
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03.2 The Staging Post
RAF Gan – the British acquired base in Addu Atoll in the southernmost island in the Maldive Archipelago was used for transit operation. In 1956, Sri...
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Equilibrium Of Brushstrokes
An artist paints in visions...to some eyes fleeting like leaves on a breeze, art work also portrays flesh out of positive energy, compelled by...
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Turmoil
Gotta find my way walking to the hills gotta leave my apartment none too soon. Just get – get out of the city where trouble is King and roses ain’t...
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Holidays
With thought of the Fry’s chocolate five boys … and memories of an eccentric old lady and her enjoyment of unpractical plans and dreams
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Footnotes
Well, they don't, do they? Image made by author from free for non commercial use items.
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Plumbers , Sparks and Brickies
Plumbers Sparks And Brickies By Paul Mc Cann Well who else but a brickie would lay down a house for you with blisters on his blisters and a back near...
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Looking Back Through The Years
. Looking Back Through The Years By Paul McCann So I was just a few months old trying to creep and finding it difficult just to get asleep I’m not...
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Golden Memories: The Psychopath
When I first met Paul he was a quiet, shy and polite kid, well turned out by his rather elderly parents. But still waters run deep and things changed...
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Dragonflies Dance
Dragonflies Dance By Paul McCann Between heaven and hell, where the dragonflies dwell, There’s a garden filled with colour and light . In a hovering...
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