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The Fish, Bear & Hawk
The Last Laugh.
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The Pocket Watch
Only Time Will Tell.
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A Good Old Folk Music Night
A Good Old Folk Music Night By Paul McCann The crowd came in early to the pub and slowly the session began with a few people breaking the ice with an...
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So farewell then Steven Wells
Steven (Seething) Wells, (or Swells), was a punk poet, turned journalist, turned comedy writer, turned author, turned cancer-diarist. He was a...
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So farewell then Smiley Culture
The first reggae album I every bought was Tongue in Cheek by Smiley Culture (real name David Victor Emmanuel). The first single from the album,...
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So farewell then Simon Veness
The first in the gang to die. On 20 June 2002, Simon Veness, a 35 year old financial risk manager for the Saudi French Bank , was killed by an Al al-...
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Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber
The world today is split in two … or three... or four... or maybe more, but nonetheless, one must confess, all wage their wars as heretofore. While...
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Musings of a Doppelgänger
“Changelings,” she would call them. Ghastly little things, they were fairies or trolls depending on her mood at the time, but the stories she told...
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Saltburn - A Publishing Journey
Saltburn. I started Saltburn here on ABCTales in the first week of 2020. In February 2025 it’s going to be published. This is the story. I’m usually...
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The Silver Spoon
'If The Spoon Fits.'
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The Fairy-Tale Soldier
'War And Peace.'
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The Walking Stick
'Lean on Me.'
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The Jester’s Requiem: Yorick Unmasked (IP)
"The Jester’s Requiem: Yorick Unmasked" By Imogen Ida Nadir, Vanity Unfair London, 6:45 p.m. Yorick may have once been the court jester of Elsinore,...
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Bus Pass [and BPL] Have Plenty of Fun
BPL was becoming increasingly animated about something called ‘A snow-bomb’. Bus Pass reckoned this is what comes from believing weather reports off...
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Good News Not Locked up
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Imprisoned, Paul was bound. God’s word they could not bind – it quickly spread, and soon was found, believed...
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A Brief Account of My Life
I was born in an excellent hospital in Ashland, Oregon, really rather a model city even then to Eric Lawlor Nelson and Cecelia Rose Howard, that is...
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Curriculum Vitae. Part Two.
l have got some Very confused cats and dogs this morning. The light had not long gone off this morning, late. For me all the hype was yesterday as I...
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I Feel it in My Fingers
It’s thirty years since ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ was released. Bit depressing. Went to a retrospective at the ARC in Peterhead. Even though the...
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The Last Night Chapter Four
Chapter 4 Soft Reality 11 Ariel heaved against Wyatt’s chest, not unlike a drowning victim clawing their way back to the surface, desperate for just...
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Mariska
Knowing she is my favourite actress of all time, when my husband found out infomation about her, this week, he told me about it. Paul found out who...
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