Historical Fiction
She Who Would Valiant Be - Episode 1
Picture: Saffron Blaze, via http://www.mackenzie.co You know how sometimes you have some dialogue running through your mind and it drives you nuts until you do something with it? No? Oh well, it's just me then! Well, anyway, this dialogue has been occupying my mind all day, so I had to do something with it. Now it can occupy yours :-)
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They Piled Up At The Whitehouse Wall
. They Piled Up At The Whitehouse Wall Paul McCann . There’s a cruel rank and file during this present time About who was elected and who actually...
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Stephen O’Donnell 1959—1995 [1]
I was living in the studio flat on Castle Street, when I heard the knock on the door. My eldest sister, Josephine, or Jo as we called her, was...
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Dear Cleo
A bosom friend (Edited)
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Phyllis McFadden 1931-1986
I was twenty-three when my Auntie Phyllis died. She was fifty-five. I’m older now than she was when she died. Back then, in 1986, I thought anyone...
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Human Kind
. Paul F. McCann HUMAN KIND Human kind dislikes being denied, And so the story goes. Human kind at times fails to agree and so the doors are closed...
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Watsons and McNeil, drowning 25th August 1972.
The boys that drowned in the nolly, Dalmuir canal, on 25 th August 1972, were much the same age as me. Children of the Cuban Missle Crisis. We went...
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John Mitchell 1965—21st September 2020. RIP.
I live in Dalmuir, but my brother who lives in Falkirk phoned me to tell me that John Mitchell was dead. Then the house phone went and my partner’s...
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Stevie Mitchell 1966-2009
The talk was Stevie Mitchell found a body down the canal when he was running, underneath the Erskine Bridge. Not all jumpers make the water. I know...
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Hamish Murdoch 1964-2007
‘Hi-yah Hamish,’ the kids at the back lane used to shout at me as I wandered down off the canal path to buy a paper from the shop on Dumbarton Road...
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