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Sketching

I sat myself down on a low stone wall, a semi-circle that splits St Mary’s Road in two. I'm just visiting Midleton, you understand... But I fancied a...
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What We Remember
Lemon trees soaked in light. A herder calls. You sit amidst Spain’s cracked hills, in olive shade. No need to talk— we’ve heard your voice. Though...
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Tan Remembered Toes

Paddling in the River Dun, we’d laugh hysterically as the peaty waters made our white Antrim feet appear a shade of tan.
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Castrator. Part Two.

Still thinking of castrator, I remember when I was 17 and a friend bought her young friend to Church for the first time, I saw something I had never...
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George Wendt To Heaven
George Wendt to Heaven when he died. He was talented and that can't be denied. George Wendt to a bar where everybody knew his name. Now that he's...
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Clouds
Why do the clouds look so stormy today? they're all white but they full of colour I have to say they may look white but shades of gray and blue mix...
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A Night Out on Castle Street

What it says ...
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The First Day At School

The First Day At School By Paul McCann My first day at school was like a transition from dreamland to a concentration camp . I was just one of the...
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Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 15

I am filled with hatred. And the cold, exquisite pleasure of momentum. The map of bloodlines stretches across my laptop like a spiderweb. They are...
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Tasty Harvest

Bush bursting with gooseberries … anticipation: but last year …
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Blue Whale On A Bed Of Nails

I’ve been awake since 3.45 am. I got up to take a piss and then went back to bed. Big mistake, I should have got up, made a coffee and started the...
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Never

What can you say when a dear friend passes away? That they were good and kind and loved my many? That they were respected and stood by their beliefs...
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A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Eight

We were brought together, recalling that I couldn't help gazing into Samuel's big blue eyes, this refined gentleman that I felt I'd known in another...
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Out of Season

The soil was still warm. Even though frost clung to car windows and the neighbor’s roof glittered like sugar, Nora pressed her fingers into the...
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Dead Man: 2

John Bardo begins the last day of his life... On the way back to the bedroom, John turned on the gas boiler and clicked the stat up a notch – just...
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YNWA.

YNWA. I have seen this before but never knew what it meant. Then someone sent it to me recently and I still didn’t understand what it meant. I told...
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Pudding Detective - Chapter 3

You know when it's Christmas morning and you wake up super early and you're lying in your bed imagining how the day will unfold and there are mountains of presents waiting for you downstairs under the tree...?
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New Directions (37)
By lunchtime my eyes felt like someone’d kicked sand in my face. Three hours of staring at my PC screen scrolling through hundreds of messages trying...
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The 30th Anniversary Of Christopher Reeve's Accident
Thirty years ago today, millions of people were surprised. Christopher Reeve fell off a horse and he was paralyzed. Reeve's accident occurred on May...
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Chronicles of Trumpenstein : Desecration and Desperation.. By (As Distant As Possible!) Armchair Commentator Alfred N.Muggins
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16/2/25 Desecration of Constitution, Separation of powers, shut ‘em down! Shutting down all those government offices which were there to help the...