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A Wee Word In Your Ear

A Wee Word In Your Ear By Paul McCann “Mrs Mc Afee and how would you be ?” “ Dead on there . How’s yourself Mr Magee ?” “Couldn’t be better despite...

1:5:1 Quararr (Part 1)

Confusion. Their wrist burnt and they felt as though they had sunk significantly into the ground around them. Dazed, their whole body tingling, they...

A walk in my new neighbourhood

I am sliding in love With this--dare I call it--home This cosy bundle of streets Unravelling for me to explore These buttercream houses Primly...

Another Perfect Day

As we have come to learn, nature abhors a vacuum while embracing entropy. I try to expalin this concept to my wife as she furiously vacuums the...
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There's a Ghost in My House (Dead Reckoning series - Part 6)

In which Josiah renews an old friendship and Archibald develops his spiritual side in the garden.
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Camping At Cavehill

Camping At Cavehill By Paul McCann Small groups of us used to leave Ardoyne for different reasons . To get branches up the Glen for Bonfire night or...
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Strange Phenomena

I have certain clothes I would never dream of wearing outside the privacy of my own home. Nothing kinky. Plenty time for that later. No, these...
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New Directions (18)

It was almost midnight when I arrived home. Chucking my clothes in a bloodstained heap near the toilet bowl I climbed into bed naked and dirty too...

The Neighborhood

The Neighborhood Living in the beehive like density of our urban neighborhoods in South Buffalo, New York, we had the custom of literally calling on...
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False Friendship

Eee by gum, Here he do cum. Bull's balls and cow's bum. Face hideous and brain numb. Drooping moobs and bulbous tum. No dad and ogress mum. But let's...

Short Stories Part Four.

When I was age three, we lived in a small bedsit, the building was three story high. One day there was a fire. We lived on the second floor. On the...
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Sean Happens 4

Sean hugged himself in the back of his Uncle’s van. He squatted,shuggling sideways, breathing through his nose the musty smells. Human debris withthe...
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Charm Bracelet

GRAN died on Christmas day, an hour after mum’s mega-dinner and enough sherry to kill a small dog. The only things she brought to the feast were a...
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Food and Marriage

My wife does all the cooking in our crib. I got the double bonus, not only is she a pretty woman but she sure can cook. We rarely go to restaurants...

The Day I Lost My Appendix

The Day I Lost My Appendix By Paul McCann We walked my sisters to their nursery school down Cambria Street with a baby in the pram . Underneath Mammy...

A Little bit of Happy

A Little Bit of Happy. At a neighbor’s urging, we sought out a rather unique eatery in Estero. Florida. F…K your Diet (Foster Kids) It is a simple...
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Quirky Letter Tweaks (1)

[I had some fun with these awhile ago when wakeful at night, so I don't know whether they are fun to others or just a bit stupid!] Come on camel! – … you’ll become …
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Breakthrough

About a year ago, I developed a searing instantly-there-instantly-gone breathtaking pain in my right-midback. It felt like the ghost of Bruce Lee was...

Reflections on Light

I was hoping to spend so much time outside this winter to combat the general lethargy I feel at this time of year. I’ve just left my 9-5 job and felt...
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In Their Company

In Their Company By Paul McCann i took a wee dander up to the Star sat down with Gerry and I had a jar I heard some music and laughter in there and a...

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