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just north of Barcelona
just north of Barcelona la Plaça fills gradually - ancients in wheelchairs gather in the shade of wild olive and myrtle trees to smoke and sometimes...
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Who God Is
. Who God Is By Paul McCann God is fair , God is good, God is love its understood . God is true , God is great, God is right , it’s no mistake . God...
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Charlie
is a survivor on the edge. He reeks - wears give-aways - pees his pants and belches no matter where. He’s human. Scoots around town on his bicycle...
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Stupid moon
We were there for the eclipse, people say sometimes when telling a happy story about a time they were in Cornwall or the north of France with friends...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning--Chapter Ten: Progress
I t was an uneventful Friday evening in the Feathers. Charlie moaned about work and how he was worried about losing his job at the building...
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Disenchantment 15
Part II January Provocation Problem Planning Persuasion and Preparation As Mark drove along the Interstate 5 freeway in a southbound direction, he...
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dance with me
dance with me my setting up a bijou salon – Palais de Dance with chandeliers and a glitter ball brought needed pizzazz to Beachy Head ‘ tired-of-...
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Hot Dry Noodles

I know a woman who killed her teacher In the revolution And who cooks up The finest noodles – and easily the spiciest – In the mortal arts. Oh...
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Shadows - Prologue
PROLOGUE My eyes are open. I think. If they are open, then everything looks grey. A dark grey. Not a grey with promise, like the early dawn. This is...
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Tourists' Dilemma - A topical tanka

Covid19 and all that.
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The Abbott Hotel (Chapter 3)
Revolution. That word feels like venom in my mouth but it was stuck on the tip of my tongue all night as I dreamed of my life and my death with...
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oh Lord deliver me
oh Lord deliver me I'm waiting outside in the corridor staring at my trainers a soup stain on my jeans reminds me of Italy the drinks machine does...
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Plan
Kiss me and call me baby I've been thinking of you lately Smile and hold my hand I know this was all unplanned
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Calban Attempts To Experience Life More Fully (Ch.18): Part 2
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Calban journeys across the City to a semi dark area, in need of economic regeneration. Unable to find female companionship he has come here searching for other ways forward. This is part of my 'Marta City and Gallanol In The Modern Age' novel, set in a futuristic period, in a world quite similar to our own.
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Peace In The Forest

Tuesday 1 st August 2020. A walk in Savernake Forest. Afternoon pleasures that merge, wandering along snaking paths where mystery and reality give...
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Spring is Late this Year

I found this. It was written in 2010. I'd been living in Spain for six years by then. I was doing A363 Creative Writing with the OU. Lord knows how much that would cost now. Aunty Betty paid for mine, part of the resettlement deal when you left after a long period of becoming institutionalised. I can't remember if it was even submitted for assessment. Don't think so. Anyway, it's a late bloomer's equivalent of juvenilia, I suppose. I've put two commas in. Treat it kindly. When the rainy month came in March or April, (there is only ever one per winter in Andalucia) I longed for Spring to start. Pic is used under CC.0 Public domain. Source PxHere.com
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"Give Me The Keys, Grandma" [Mister Martínez Nineteen]

I think I'd rather be a myth, too. Image taken by MARIA ROSA FERRE source, flicker.com used under licence CC.2.0
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The Patrolman (2) - Chapter I: The Patrolman (Part II)

Second draft of completed first novel - The Patrolman. "The confrontation seemed to last just a few seconds."
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