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If You Go Down To The Woods Today ............. Part Two.

A lot of people were talking about the Government alarm, that would go off today at 3pm today. I had decided to let my phone go off by not charging...
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The Goings On at Ned's

Ned the bartender was in a mood. “Bugsy! Stop eating them roaches! I’m getting complaints from the exterminator. I should be cheering you on; you’re...
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The trunk

The Trunk A trunk. Not one belonging to an elephant, or an item of clothing used for swimming, or a part of the body, or what holds up a tree or even...
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Your verdict on the empty tomb

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] An empty tomb. The soldiers bribed to say they slept, their guard not kept. Discouraged followers transformed …

The legend lives on!

some flash fiction
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Sowing The Seeds Of Love

On Earth Day 22 nd April 2023. Wish earth's anguish would diminish, let nature be a welcome guest at celebration for World Peace. We would be...
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Guns, Babies and Medicine

And how is your brother doing? He went to university he took medicine. Sorry to hear, is he feeling better? - Van der Merwe arrived in his grand...
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stravaganza

let off horizon's leash, sun casts hungrily through bare trees till shadow's cowered, tight- bowerered in honeysuckle stalks on a stumped giant,...
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1:3:10 Blue (Part 6)

“Sir we’ve got company. Protectorate ships on sensors leaving Rexel’s One, Three, Four and Six.” Jo’Tastia’T split her main screen to show the...

1:3:10 Blue (Part 5)

Lore still hadn’t opened their eyes. After Crait’s attack, them becoming whatever The Paragon was and their short journey through space, they could...

If You Go Down To The Woods Today .............

I had heard about it before, but I thought it was a joke, or the latest scam. But today I had a text, a very long text, sent to me, and apparently it...
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Down to earth

First there is the dull smack on the dark water of the forest pond. Frightened birds fly from the dignified reeds into the brutal woods. I notice the...

The Dance Of The Marching Mushrooms

The Dance Of The Marching Mushrooms By Paul McCann Well come on lets make our way now , across the bridge where fairies play we’ll sing and dance at...
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On The Road, Again! (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 14)

In which the Detectives and Mr. & Mrs. Hamble head off down the coast, but not together!

Your Love

Your Love By Paul McCann Your love is like a mountain , its always there within view , It takes me to a high place , where I’m all alone with you I...

Squirting ‘cucumber’ …

Ecballium elaterium even makes David Attenborough laugh out loud!
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Dwindlings in the Crysalis

I will not enter this pod which promises rebirth. Nothing worse than being recycled by accident, going to sleep quietly and ending up as compost. No-...
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Greed Was Your Downfall

You were greedy and it was your downfall. You went to Las Vegas and you lost it all. You lost seventy thousand dollars in one day. Your wife took the...
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The Last Thing That Was Mentioned

Heavy snow coming in off Lake Michigan in nasty flurries, a bitterly cold black Chicago night and his large, scarred hands were starting to freeze...

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