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Le Merle Noir
In ‘Bird by Bird’, Anne Lamott mentions someone called Wallace Stevens. I had to Google in order to get the joke. He was a poet who worked in...
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Lambs At The Slaughterhouse Door
Lambs At The Slaughterhouse Door By Paul McCann There in the hands of the butchers knives where the lambs at the slaughter house door , there by the...
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The Angels Of Ardoyne
The Angels Of Ardoyne By Paul McCann The angels in around Ardoyne they gracefully fly Looking down at the streets from an overcast sky . They come...
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The Great Escape With Gerry And Me
The Great Escape With Gerry And Me By Paul McCann I remember the day colour TV came . and Gerrys Aunt had one We thought it might be a good idea to...
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A Trip through Old Florida
Babcock Ranch Excursion We set out from Estero at 10:30 A.M. and followed Rte. # 75 north. We exited onto Bayshore Rd., following it east to Rte. #31...
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The Graveyard
A fictional story of love and acceptance!
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Cancelled Comics?
We never would have got the joke If childrens’ comics had been ‘woked’ Back in our rose-tinted childhood days When being old was far away. Dennis was...
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Lookit!
At fifteen, I saw, far away, through the lens of naivety, what I believed was a pair of stars. A discovery that would make me the toast of the...
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Punk Situation
When I was young, I was reluctant to write because I was afraid that I'd punctuate incorrectly as I'm not great at following rules. Our teachers...
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Capricious Satnav
We set out our route on the satnav to travel home next day from north-coast Pembrokeshire, an easterly wriggly way. Next morning as we drove along...
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage
Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.
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The Nature of Feelings
The grass was still glistening with dew in the walled garden. I was early. It’s a Boomer thing. Plus, you must allow for stuck-behind-a-tractor...
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The Possible Barracuda Don't Know
Let's face it, although we have flashbacks, we live our lives chronologically. The scenes develop organically with one scene following the next in a...
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Informed Rituals
I should have known from the psychedelic colours in the gorse that a migraine was coming. I haven’t had a migraine in years, so didn’t twig. I...
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Knowing One Supernatural
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] His Being is transcendent, different, far above (in purity, perception, glory, skill and love) those he had … indescribable, in grace approachable …
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Mother's Day 2024
Today is Mother's Day of 2024. But you died and you can't celebrate Mother's Day anymore. You were a wonderful mother and I'm your youngest son. You...
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The Mushroom.
This morning a friend took me to The Harvester for breakfast. I don’t go very often the last time I went to one, was last year for my birthday, my...
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A Kodak Moment
History as a Kodak Moment I was leafing through a volume of historical photos, published by the Buffalo News. They were snapshots of Buffalo, N.Y...
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