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Love Story 12
Mum had a cup of tea on the go and the chip pan on to make Da’s tea. Animal fat and incinerated starch creating a sticky vapour that clung to every...
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The shoreline in autumn
The waves peter out over the pebbles The early evening light is fading gulls circle Stillness in the clouds filled autumn skies Like a turner...
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Firework party, a little early
Fizzy fireworks, sparkling lights: no fear here of ghosts or bombs, but colourful exciting sights – squeals, bright eyes, a rolling surprise: wheesh...
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Love Story 11
‘She would notice,’ I bit down on my bottom lip to show that was our conversation over. Ali recovered quicker than a whiplash victim cashing a cheque...
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flowing love fever
let my dreams flow flow round-and-round warmly dearest tightly darling maiden dream flowing around your dreams my arms in love warmly safely tenderly...
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Civilians In War
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20/10/23 Of course civilians should be allowed to have the necessities, and the wounded and injured. Those are supposed to be the modern rules of war...
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Love Story 10
Mum floated about smoking between the kitchen and living room. Da ruffled the sports’ pages of the Daily Record to show he was reading and didn’t...
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Allhallows
The church clock strikes the midnight hour, and the children now have long gone home; with their costumes folded and put away, Halloween is passing...
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Blue Haunt
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." -- Oscar Wilde
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One Good Turn
...deserves another.
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Mr Bubumpkin And The River Of Dreams
Mr Bubumpkin And The River Of Dreams By Paul McCann Cradled between Smokey Mountain and the Olden Hills is Sunny Valley . Through Sunny Valley is the...
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I Would Not Like To Do It In Minus 45!
The heating is still off, although I have had it on once, this week. I washed my lovely warm dressing gown recently; it was given to me many years...
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Parcel for you....Part 6
‘We can’t do it at the table!’
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Essentially Its You
Essentially Its You By Paul McCann For what its worth I say to you , a thousand times my love is true A richer man is what I am in every way because...
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Automne Parisien
One for Halloween. Image is from pixabay.com. Might be AI... hmm. Didn't come up on Tin Eye
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Remembering
Dear diary... As summer ends winter begins to steep in cold, what remains is easy to see...memories of tender forgotten pleasure, two warm souls...
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An Infancy, I fancy
An Infancy, I fancy From a ten-inch womb with a little elbowroom for a fetus to move about an infant bouts to come out to a limitless open space...
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May 4th (chapter 2)
Did David just meet 'the one?' Will Eoin show up and ruin the night?
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The Buried Treasure (3) - Solving the puzzle
John Brown was flabbergasted. He looked at his wife and asked: “Do you mean you doubt they were federal agents, Dorothy?” Mrs. Brown, who liked to...
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