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Peach trees blossoms
Peach tree's blossoms look so fair, like pink ribbons in her hair or butterflies rose tinted wings that flutter away with the Spring.
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Boatman's dream 4
Time for a pint.
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Freaks' Gallery

These are the noises I grow up with, a child of the circus: the giant scraping sound of metal against metal as the squids bring our ship into dock...
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Issues of the Day
Climate Change: I support the Paris Agreement and feel that if it's imperfect, we should re-negotiate a global 'global warming' treaty as pollution...
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Longing
It is especially dark tonight ribbons of ebony twisting slowly around a small amount of light the twinkling diamonds are few but vast in their beauty...
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Essay: North Korea
As a public intellectual, I'd like to offer my advice. First of all, in trying to get what we want from North Korea, we should talk to them. We...
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The Captains Table - Part 2
continued.. The Captains Table by Paul McCann Part 2 Policeman –“Thank you Doc. Could you look after things for a brief moment I need to inform the...
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The Captains Table - Part 1
The Captains Table Part 1 A play By Paul McCann This play is set around a dinner table on a cruise ship out on the ocean in a place somewhere between...
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pondering on nationwide adverts...

A building society jingle - a group of carol singing old white bearded men in trilby's...singing!
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Boatman's dream 3
The stranger makes landfall.
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The birth certificate problem
It may seem strange to conventional mainlander types, but it wasn’t until I was 33 that I even realised it was unusual not to know who my father was...
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Lenny Mass's Branhal School Diary - Saturday 22 November
Saturday 22 November Mum, I know you think I've been staying at school, because you got a letter from the Branhals telling you a fifth year...
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Nobody's Son or, Another Delinquent Boy's Betrayal (Part 2)
[CHAPTER THE THIRD] THE OLD CODGER AND HIS PUPILS Despite this ‘dark spot’ in the official version of events, certain pieces of information,...
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Nobody's Son or, Another Delinquent Boy's Betrayal (Part 1) REVISED
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil rather than to have good imposed upon him?” – Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange [1] . For Eleanor. [...
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In Witness Of A Dream (Part 5)
Three days later Kaola came across coquette on the chat in the midnight. “I know you,” he typed. “Tell me,” coquette returned. “Sophie Nadz.” “No.” “...
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Stage Fright
She untucks the strands of hair from behind her left ear. They are brunette curtains of curls and locks that her almond eyes carefully peek through...
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Silhouette
The cool breeze ruffled up his hair a bit, and he instantly smiled at nature's gesture as if acknowledging it. Taking solace in nature's lap he felt...
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on Psalm 16

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series, a day early this week, as I can't post for a few days ] O keep me sheltered safe, O God, my refuge and my...
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