Tales About Mystery And Imagination
By mcscraic
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It’s a Bags Life
Life is full of surprises and like pulling tricks out of a bag destiny makes plans we are never in control of .
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A Message From Audio-4
A Musician Discovers Another Dimension and learns about the threat to our existence .
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Heavenly Home
Andy found a way to live in heaven and on earth
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Abducted By Aliens
They came from another planet on a mission to save our world and its people .
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An Open Door
The revisiting of old places often opens up some doors that we could have never imagined .
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Ancient Visitors FromThe Timeless World
Strange Beings Journey To Earth Between The Begining Of Time To Our Present
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Another Day
Imagine if we had a days notice before we died . What would you do with the time ?
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Beyond Samhair
Good versus evil transcends both time and place .
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Christmas Curfew
In the hard times we can often find a common ground .
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Christmas On The Road
Short Sketch about two truck drivers on the road on Christmas Eve Night
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Death In A Church
Self importance is like putting your hands in a bucket of water . If you take your hands out of the bucket the water never changes . It is still a bucket of water .
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Magja’s Day Of Reckoning
For a world ruled by greed and cruelty a day of reckoning comes .
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The Ethical Road
There are many paths but one road that leads us to where we are going . The Ethical Road has many twists and turns but the only way to go .
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Hound Of The Heath
Sometimes builders have had to stop work for different reasons . This is one of those stories
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Interview With God
God knows there are too many questions but not enougt answers .
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House Of Rhyme
Story in verse about a house that recovers a debt .
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The Killer Couch
Who has ever said I love my couch . Well here is a case of a couch that can kill you .
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Mirror World
If there was life in a mirror world could we change what we see ?
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New intellect
New Intellect was found and plans to build future landscapes on the planet had begun long before the fragile earth was inhabitable .
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Miracle Gift
A visible and unexplained event had occured . It was called a miracle .
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The Empty Chair
Halloween they say is a time when the dead can revisit the earth . Here is a tale to grab your attention .
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Snatched
All kinds of weird people get around on Halloween
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Without A Head At Halloween
One drink at Halloween brough a new menaing to the word hangover for Clancy .
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Without A Trick Or Treat
A strange visit at Halloween changes ome mans life forever .
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Jerusalem’s Welcome
This story is a behind the scene look at the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem .
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Table For One
One night in a restaurant can change the course of many lives .
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Secret Sketches
Can you hear the call of an artists life ? Who has the answer ?
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Troubadours At The 4th Of July
A musician who runs away from the world discovers more than the escape he had hoped to find .
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Young Masters Music
The story of how music and a boy ran off into the world and made it together .
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Fu And The Dragon
This tale is about a storyteller who lives down by the lagoon and about the gift he was given that would benefit all the world .
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Love Pirates
In this story the pirates are interested in one treasure . Love .
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Pat's Silence
Silence are the spaces where teardrops cannot fall- Cry for those who suffer in there .
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Treasure In A Tea Pot
The story of a man who after buying a teapot finds his life is turned around .
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The Lady On A Tuesday
The journey of life is a bit like being on on a train . We don't choose the passengers and when they get on or off .
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Dragon Time
Once upon a dragon time things were much different than now .
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Macho-Libre
A shared Work in sentence collaboration
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Saved By The Bell
. The dark cloak of night threw itself across the sky as I sat on the rooftop watching the missiles that flew overhead. There was nothing anyone...
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Sunken City
Sunken City By Paul McCann . This story looks at sustaining life on the planet after a nuclear war . In Cooper Pedy in Australia the end of the...
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The Stars That Fell From The Sky
The Stars That Fell From The Sky By Paul McCann Mick had just finished evening shift at the hospital and was on his way home . As he drove through...
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The Bones Of Burriburn
The Bones Of Burriburn By Paul McCann Part 1 Ron had been a priest for over 40 years and had been to just as many parishes in that time . On request...
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The Bones Of Burriburn - Part 2
The Bones Of Burriburn - Part 2 Then he went to his room and opened up the anthology of poems and started to read through page after page . He felt a...
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Mother Lode
Mother Lode By Paul McCann She was born in a busy western Sydney hospitalan innocent little girl with no idea of what life was all about. Michelle...
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The Man Who Lives Down The Track
The Man Who Lives Down The Track is By Paul McCann . Somewhere near West Virginia, down a windy track the mist lay thick over a little cabin in the...
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The Long Lost Son
The Long Lost Son By Paul McCann .For most people it was a day like any other around Westmead by the banks of Parramatta River however for Chris...
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Kellwicks Curse
Kellwick’s Curse By Paul McCann For one hundred years the people of Renmack were happy and content in a small rural community with a population of...
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The Man In The Big Picture
The Man In The Big Picture - By Paul McCann Meth had no family or friends. He had been abandoned at birth by his parents and in his childhood years...
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The Touch Stone- Part one
The Touch Stone By Paul McCann . It was a cold Saturday evening in the prison cell and morning was a long time off . The jingle of the prison guards...
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The Touchstone - Part two
The Touchstone by Paul McCann Continued Part 2 . The man in the suit smiled and then he looked at the stone . ”How much do you want for that stone in...
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The Mystery Of Hazel Maclean
The Mystery Of Hazel Maclean By Paul McCann Hazel was a hard working woman who owned and managed The Clean Plate Cafe , in Sydney City . She had...
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Dennis And The Secret Door
Dennis And The Secret Door By Paul McCann Every day Dennis would leave school to have lunch at his Grandmothers house . He loved going there because...
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The Others
The Others By Paul McCann Todd first noticed the others, by chance alone one day in a crowded restaurant. Maybe it was fate that chose him to see...
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Secret Of The Forest
Secret Of The Forest By Paul McCann Megan and John had been in love for many years but when their love grew old they became cold and distant to each...
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The Doomsday Train
The Doomsday Train - By Paul McCann . Collectors freeway as it was known was the only toll free highway from the city to the airport . It had three...
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The Plague Of Beevile
The Plague Of Beevile By Paul McCann In an old timber shack, by the railway track, in town of Beevile, lived Jigger Mc Teague , the hermit with no...
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The Tree Of Life
The Tree Of Life By Paul McCann The year was 2070 and inside Sanctuary City the celebrations for Earth Memorial Day were taking place . People were...
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Kistum's Companion
Kistum’s Companion - Short Story by Paul McCann .A misty moon crept its way across the sky and glistened over Golma Now and then an eerie half-light...
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The Tunes Of Toloc
The Tunes Of Toloc By Paul McCann One bright sunny morning beside Toloc Forest , the cows that stood in the glade chewed and Mooed away until Wirera...
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The Boy With The Pigs Face
The Boy With The Pigs Face By Paul McCann One cold winters night in a prison cell a wheelchair was rolled out into the corridor . The woman who sat...
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Secrets Of The Marsh
Secret Of The Marsh By Paul McCann The sound of snapping and snarling echoed through the clear morning air. Suddenly beneath a blanket of mist a...
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Future Life And The Adam Theory
Future Life And The Adam Theory By Paul McCann The dark cloak of night threw itself across the sky as I sat on the rooftop watching the missiles that...
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The Day Of The Syborg
The Day Of The Syborg By Paul McCann Once upon a distant time intelligent men designed a superior robot called the Syborg that began working for...
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Spidorcan
Spidorcan By Paul Mc Cann The snow thickly covered the hillside like a white carpet . High above the Hosters Farm a full moon glistened and flickered...
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Dimensional Shades
Dimensional Shades By Paul Mc Cann Our ship was making its way through the earths atmosphere . We were actually landing before we had originally...
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Friends Of Truth
Friends Of Truth short story by Paul McCann . It was late in the evening in the early spring and people were out walking together enjoying the long...
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Weird Mr White’s Not Right
Mr White was a reject of society . He never chose to be but mental illness made sure that he was not made welcome in the community . He lived alone...
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Sailing Beyond New Horizons
Sailing Beyond New Horizons By Paul Mc Cann It was a quiet evening when he walked into the bar in Sailorstown . He looked lost and sat by the bar ...
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Riddle Of The Swanship
Riddle Of The Swanship By Paul Mc Cann On the other side of Popple Mountain lay the crystal clear lake that surrounded the village of Firesvale . The...
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Lady Of The Longships
Apart from being fierce warriors the Vikings where the very first master boat builders on the face of the Earth . Once they had designed the...
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Mira’s Reign Over Tara
A heavy stone was placed over the grave where the King had been buried . Mira and a few other warriors cast their swords into the soil and walked...
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The Visit
The Visit By Paul McCann The trees brushed up against the windows of the cottage and the rain battered the shutters from their hinges. The thatched...
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The Eve Of The Hallow
The Eve Of The Hallow A short story by Paul McCann . Back in a place where crows picked maize from the fields and crops grew among the blackstones on...
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Our Generous God
Miracles are the invisible presence of God with us . Faith is our link to understanding .
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The Grave Digger
. The Grave Digger by Paul McCann There was trouble on the street , a crowd had gathered for the second night in a row. Some stones were thrown then...
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The Mountain Monastery
. The Mountain Monastery By Paul McCann Sam loved riding bicycles with his friends Dick , Gerry and Bobby . They liked the mountain roads as they...
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The Weighbridge
. The Weighbridge by Paul McCann It was a cold winters night and the fog came down and the traffic on the freeway was moved slowly past the...
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Freeway To The Stars
. Freeway To The Stars By Paul McCann There a some people who have no interest at all in the stars or what is happening in the firmament above...
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. Unknown Weapons
. Unknown Weapons by Paul McCann . The world we live in has become monitored from space by cameras and other scanning technology so that nothing can...
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The Visit To Ascetinia
The Visit To Ascetinia A short story by Paul McCann For most of his life Mackbah Cahoun had tried to help others but when he was in real need of help...
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Doctor Dynamic And The Green Reptilians
Doctor Dynamic The Green Reptilians By Paul McCann Darby Donovan first discovered a new species of insect life that had mutated after a number of...
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Pioneers Of A Nuclear Winter
Pioneers Of A Nuclear Winter By Paul McCann Ten years they said we would be locked away until the nuclear winter would pass but we . We had been...
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The Chosen One
The Chosen One By Paul McCann Frankie Green was a gifted gardener . They said he could grow crops on concrete if he wanted . Nicknamed Yankee Green...
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The Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
The Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son By Paul McCann In a Nepalese village a baby boy was born to a Sherpa called Kamal who was a seventh son of another...
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The Scarecrow Of Barrenfield
The Scarecrow Of Barrenfield by Paul McCann The town of Barrenfield was just a very recent place that sprung up in the Vale of Black Bracken that was...
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The Revenge Of The Stolen Children
Revenge Of The Stolen Children - A short story By Paul McCann In the darkness of the night they came in trucks to take away children from their poor...
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The Storyteller And The Gypsy King
. The Storyteller And The Gypsy King by Paul McCann Sean McKay was a gifted story teller and it was said people who heard him fell into a trance with...
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The Storyteller And The Lake Dweller
. The Storyteller and the Lake Dweller by Paul McCann The storyteller never had a map but his instincts told him which way he had to go . Each step...
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The Storyteller and The Air Raid Shelter
The Storyteller and The Air Raid Shelter by Paul McCann The storyteller awoke at sunrise after spending the night inside a cave that provided shelter...
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The Storyteller and The Gentle Giant
The Storyteller and the Gentle Giant by Paul McCann He woke up from a deep sleep alone . The people who had come to the lagoon to listen to his...
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The Storyteller and The Quiet One's
The Storyteller And The Quiet Ones by Paul McCann He was walking along the road to Courtstown when he noticed a lady approaching from the opposite...
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The Storyteller And The Lost Dragon
. The Storyteller And The Lost Dragon by Paul McCann He had been walking through the Mystical Woods looking for a sign . He had a melody with words...
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The Storyteller and The Slave
The Storyteller and The Slave by Paul McCann He sat there by cliffs edge , far enough from the clifftop to appreciate the view of the five loughs...
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The Storyteller And The Time Keeper
The Storyteller And The Time Keeper by Paul McCann Sean Mc Kay was not the kind of man you would meet every day. Some say he had been lifted above...
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The Storyteller And The Fourth Dimension
The Storyteller And The Fourth Dimension by Paul McCann It was a warm summer’s night and all around Heroes Bay was the sound of waves crashing down...
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The Storyteller And The Troubled Soul
The Storyteller And The Troubled Soul - A Short Story By Paul McCann He sat by the crystal pools at Greengate watching water cascading down from the...
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The Storyteller And The Lighthouse Keepers
The Storyteller And The Lighthouse Keepers by Paul McCann A gale force nine had arrived like a monster , wreaking havoc wherever it went . Hijacking...
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The Storyteller And The Songbird
The Storyteller And The Songbird by Paul McCann He was sitting by the lagoon and the afternoon was fading into a long twilight of the summer ...
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The Storyteller And The Time Travellers
The Storyteller And The Time Travellers by Paul McCann He awoke with the sound of birds chirping outside the window of the cottage where he was...
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The Storyteller and The Wishing Well
The Storyteller and The Wishing Well by Paul McCann One summer night as he was on the road to Castle Hill, he was singing a song to the moon walking...
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The Storyteller and The Hidden Ones
The Storyteller and The Hidden Ones By Paul McCann It was the twilight of a summers evening and he sat in a treehouse that was built in the middle of...
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The Storyteller and The Children Of The Castle Keep
. The Storyteller and The Children Of The Castle Keep by Paul McCann On the Blarney Road facing north , a strong wind was at his back pushing him...
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The Storyteller and The First Christmas
The Storyteller and The First Christmas by Paul McCann He was not and will never be the kind of man you meet every day, His life has been spent...
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The Storyteller And The Nuclear Winter
The Storyteller And The Nuclear Winter by Paul McCann He looked out the window at the surrounding hills and the shadows waited for the moon to rise...
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The Storyteller’s Visit To Wombscape
The Storyteller’s Visit To Wombscape by Paul McCann The storyteller was lying half-awake in bed and looking out the window at the new moon in the sky...
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The Storyteller And The Wolf Of Cushean
The Storyteller And The Wolf Of Cushean by Paul McCann The storyteller was on his way to the Fiddlers Well where he had promised himself, he would be...
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The Storyteller And The Monk
The Storyteller And The Monk By Paul McCann On the road he walked among places between the mountains and sea . As the sun began to set, he felt the...
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The Storyteller And The Gibilley Gooks
The Storyteller And The Gibilley Gooks By Paul McCann In a boat on the ocean, he sat alone thinking of times that were long gone and civilizations...
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The Lady Who Went Shopping
The Lady Who Went Shopping By Paul McCann Miss Victoria Bower was alone in the world after both her parents were killed in a car accident . She...
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The New Equinox Before Life Began Again
The New Equinox Before Life Began Again By Paul McCann Before the disappearance of the world’s population, strange paranormal events were occurring...
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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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Dancing In The Halls Of Wisdom
Dancing In The Halls Of Wisdom By Paul McCann She took the dream train at the usual time , just as she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep ...
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Only They Would Know That
Only They Would Know That By Paul McCann Only those who are innocent and pure of heart are allowed to walk the road to the place where angels play...
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The Monster Bigot
The Monster Bigot By Paul McCann For about a hundred years in Settlers City a monster known as Bigot lived underneath the city streets, unseen and...
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Ghost Of The Waste Ground
Ghost Of The Waste Ground By Paul McCann People used to live on the Bone as it was called, in a place called Savage Row which had been an area of...
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Rest In Peace
Rest In Peace By Paul McCann Margaret was an artist with a promising future . She had been commissioned to commence a collection of artworks for the...
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Voyage Of Vanity
Voyage Of Vanity by Paul McCann In between the mountain and the sea, a dragon flew through a jewelled sky with the sun rising like a golden ball...
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The Ghost Of The Abandoned House
The Ghost Of The Abandoned House By Paul McCann Every day Dennis would leave Butler Street school with me to have lunch . went to my Grandmothers...
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Around May 1941
Around May 1941 By Paul McCann If only we had a time machine , wouldn’t it be great to travel back through time or even into the future . Looking...
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Charlie And The Lost Dog
Charlie And The Lost Dog By Paul McCann As the first of the new houses were being built around the village Ardoyne some of its early residents were...
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The Woman Of Old House
The Woman Of Old House By Paul McCann Barbara was from the Markets and Danny from Ardoyne .They went out a couple of times and started to get serious...
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Knocking Around On Halloween Night
Knocking Around On Halloween Night By Paul McCann It was Halloween night and a few of the local children put on false faces and went around the...
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Visit Of The Time Traveller
Visit Of The Time Traveller by Paul McCann Some young lads from Sailor Town found him lying on the ground at the docks and they asked him where he...
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Ai And The Truth
Ai And The Truth By Paul McCann He sat in front of the computer writing a story about past generations and their traditions . When the story was half...
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The Tradition Of An Old Wedding Dress
The Tradition Of An Old Wedding Dress By Paul McCann Hazel was a hard working woman who owned and managed The Clean Plate Cafe , in Sydney City . She...
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Grandma's Wish
Grandma’s Wish by Paul McCann She loved her Grandchildren for years and as the grew she visited them once a week and they always loved to see her ...
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- 73 reads
Cargo Of Souls
Cargo Of Souls By Paul McCann The ship pulled In To Belfast Lough on a quiet evening when the shops had all closed and the pubs were getting busy . A...
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- 186 reads
Granda's Message
Grandas Message By Paul McCann It was another cold day in the Brickyard Flats and not much was happening anywhere . It looked just like a vacant lot...
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- 91 reads
The Invisible Door
The Invisible Door Mr By Paul McCann Brendan Mongomery lived all alone in Breekfield Manor on the top of Wolf Hill in Leightonfield . He was the last...
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- 145 reads
The Woman Who Lived On The Docks
The Woman Who Lived On The Docks By Paul McCann Barbara lived down by the markets inside an empty shipping container that had been left opened for...
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- 78 reads
The Presence Of Angels
The Presence Of Angels By Paul McCann There were times in my life when I have experienced the presence of angels , They leave signs such as feathers...
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- 151 reads
Visitor In A One Horse Town
Visitor In A One Horse Town By Paul McCann In rode the stranger on a white stallion. Tumbleweeds rolled across the street blown by a western wind...
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- 63 reads
Passengers In Time
Passengers In Time By Paul McCann Mandatown was surrounded by five mountains . The tallest of these was Sunset peak and if you stood on the top...
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- 77 reads
The Shadow People
The Shadow People By Paul McCann It was the middle of the day and he just had a swim in his pool felt very tired so he went to lie down in the...
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- 203 reads
Justin And Tiny Mo
Justin And Tiny Mo By Paul McCann In the heart of the glen glade around the mystic meadow where the fairies dwell , there was one such fairy who came...
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- 68 reads
The Hidden World Of Antara
The Hidden World Of Antara By Paul McCann In a cave on a quiet mountain there lived a hermit called Esram who had lived there for several years . He...
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- 57 reads
Slaughterhouse Noise's
Slaughterhouse Noise's By Paul McCann The old slaughter house stood beside a waste ground in Mossy Valley . Most of the local men folk worked in...
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- 68 reads
A Place Where Dreams Come True
A Place Where Dreams Come True by Paul McCann They met in a dream on a staircase and went separate ways in their search for the door to get away...
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- 57 reads
Spirit of The Streets
Spirit of The Streets by Paul McCann The rain pelted down like steel rivets upon the red rooves of the single decker buses in Smirkers Street bus...
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- 49 reads
The Lost Scrolls Of Batasha
The Lost Scrolls Of Batasha By Paul McCann The desert fathers sat on a pillar watching those who would passing by . They offered words of wisdom for...
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- 41 reads
Another Place Another Time
Another Place Another Time By Paul McCann Francie met Cecila and immediately there was something special happening.. After only a few months he had...
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- 53 reads
A New Life In Eardaroyne
A New Life In Eardaroyne By Paul McCann Its not there out in space for a future human race to find or hiding beyond a lost horizon where the sun has...
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- 42 reads
The Unseen Recreation Of Life
The Unseen Recreation Of Life By Paul McCann Global warming reached a point when it became too hot to live on the surface of earth and cities where...
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- 51 reads
The Bush Fires Of Bracken Valley
The Bush Fires Of Bracken Valley By Paul McCann The people of Bracken Valley were a close community and enjoyed quiet lifestyle surrounded by trees...
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- 48 reads
The Traveller
The Traveller By Paul McCann He was always a loner and people who knew him would say , he’s alone more times than anyone ever should be but in saying...
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- 49 reads
Unseen Hands At Work
Unseen Hands At Work By Paul McCann He had been using his gift of teleporting and was confident about his ability to travel through time and space ...
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- 49 reads
Return Of The Stolen Children
Return Of The Stolen Children By Paul McCann In the darkness of the night he woke up with a beautiful small of roses in the room . As he looked over...
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- 52 reads
Secrets Of The Deep
Secrets Of The Deep by Paul McCann For over forty years nuclear weapons were being tested underwater in the seas and oceans on the planet ...
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- 45 reads
Project Growth Spurt
Project Growth Spurt By Paul McCann World wars , famines , disease and then a deadly viruses affecting people twenty years and over, had taken most...
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- 41 reads
The Girl Who Liked Walking Through The Woods
The Girl Who Liked Walking Through The Woods By Paul McCann She always loved walking in the woods surrounded by trees in the silence of a lonely...
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- 62 reads
Thoughts
Thoughts By Paul McCann The first time it happened , it was just like someone uninvited came walking straight through the front door without knocking...
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- 61 reads
Seems Like Only Yesterday
Seems Like Only Yesterday By Paul McCann As he lay in bed with a syringe driver feeding the tube that went into his vein, he started to think about...
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- 38 reads
Buckets Of Roses
Buckets Of Roses Short Story By Paul McCann After quitting his job he had a regular spot at the railway station where he sold flowers from buckets to...
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- 64 reads
It’s Just A Matter Of Time
It’s Just A Matter Of Time By Paul McCann .Adam Glazier was attempting to set a new record for going around the world in a hot air balloon . The...
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- 40 reads
The Age Of The Emobot
The Age Of The Emobot By Paul McCann The frantic pace of life on earth was driven by progress with all of its new devices and infrastructure . The...
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- 59 reads
Why Should Love Be Lonely
Why Should Love Be Lonely By Paul McCann There was always a threat that nuclear war could wipe out most of the fertile lands around the planet which...
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- 39 reads
The Pirate and The Piper Of Tir Na Nog
The Pirate and The Piper Of Tir Na Nog by Paul McCann A lonely pirate without a ship came walking to the lake’s edge and called out . “Hello I’m the...
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- 98 reads
One Sound
One Sound Short Story By Paul McCann It was the day all the human race had feared and hoped would never happen . Doomsday , the war to end all wars...
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- 102 reads
The Extraordinary Child
The Extraordinary Child By Paul McCann The long night slowly passed to the silence of the morning light, and he lay there in bed looking up at the...
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- 33 reads
The Zero Harm Principle
The Zero Harm Principle By Paul McCann When he got to school, he saw the front office window was broken . There was a line-up of children outside the...
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- 27 reads
The Field And The Flying Worm
The Field And The Flying Worm By Paul McCann Certainly or not there’s no need to understand anything in that distant field across the bridge . In...
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- 22 reads