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It Is That Time Of The Year Again. Part One

I have bought mine. I bought four as I always lose at least three of them. A lot of people don’t know that you can put any amount in the tin, it hasn...
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Who Wants to Live Forever?

For Halloween 2024 Who Wants to Live Forever? Fritz Erlinger was a name that came to haunt me, torture me as my life unfolded. Yet, in the beginning...
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The Faceless Goddess of DIY

She is fearless, she is tidy. When she’s not DIYing, she’s making bread and chutney. She has exquisite taste in paint colours, (although she ‘bead...

There’s Never Enough Love

There’s Never Enough Love By Paul McCann There once was man , Stan was his name and he drank sweet sherry every day . at work until he could no...

The Luckie Duckie Of The Happy Forest

The Luckie Duckie Of The Happy Forest By Paul McCann The Luckie duckie woke up happy beside the riverbank in a soft garden bed, surrounded by a...
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F*king awful

Posting the safest bits first..

Echoes of the infinite

Listen, can you hear it? A symphony formed, each note a soft breath from the shadows of lost lives, the myriad of worlds that have come, then slipped...
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the Captain's Constitutional

The Captain’s Constitutional 2025 Staging / FX Simple staging, light to follow Capt. Salter. FX: Music / street cries /traffic tape or cast members...
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To kill a fly …

That irritating buzz from somewhere nearby when nearly time for sleep – sounds like a mozzie/fly. He skulked around with swatter-bat but nothing...
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Confession is Good for the Soul (The Bible)

October may not be over, but I am so over no-spendallying. Was it worth it? Actually, it was invaluable. (Notwithstanding ever-increasing guilt at...

Weather App. Haiku # 18

Sun dazzles brightly, The leaves are almost gone But the sun still shines!
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The Holy Land

The Holy Land neath hammer blows - is this what Jesus prophesied: when sad-sack’s hanged like mistletoes the sightless see a suicide; when tho usands...
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The Speed Of Dark // Eclipse

No clock can measure, no hand can stay, The speed of darkness eats the day. Like Magritte’s sky of feathered night, It swallows sun, eclipses light...
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Letter to Paul Simon from Cecilia (circa. Feb 1970)

Dear Simon, I’m writing this because, well, you keep showing up at my door with that same sad look, and it’s time we get a few things straight. It’s...

After All These Years

After All These Years By Paul McCann Johnny and Chris first met by chance in a music shop . They both were looking for a new set of guitar strings...
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DetermiNature

Last Tuesday’s striding out in the fresh air was more a scramble in the bracing sea breezes, over the pebbly moonwalk landscape that is, Spey Bay...
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Ghost Story

Ghost Story I don’t believe in ghosts. At least that’s what I’ve always said. Memories can be fragile. I should be lucid and know exactly what I’m...
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A Child's view of Halloween

Halloween-through a child’s eyes. The pile of pumpkins that I was sitting in had ripened to an orange softness that was appealing to the eye and...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 21

“Perfidia,” Martha said with an apologetic look as she entered the kitchen from the backdoor, “I’m sorry we couldn’t wait for you.” “I understand. It...
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