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Night Shopping, by Noah Siela
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Night Shopping, a song by Noah Siela

Lyrics: Night Shopping Best thing that happened to mom Was  Hy-Vee opening all night long So she could use food...
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The scabby sheep
Milk House ContributorNonfiction

Scabby Sheep’s Second Chance, Sally Urwin

Scabby Ewe (affectionately known as Scabs or the Scabster) is one of our friendliest sheep. This is her story. In...
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The virtues of destruction are few
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The Virtues of Destruction (Excerpt), by Colin T. Gilbert

This is the beginning of Colin’s novel The Virtues of Destruction, now available on Amazon. * Hidden within one sharp and brooding...
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waterfalls in Nairobi
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One-way Ticket to Nairobi, by Poppy Johnson (Translation by MD Wanyagah)

There is a long dusty Kenyan road that carries me to you, Forging a likeness to the same reddened particulate...
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Jim Trelease's best joke: this fish in the toilet
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The Best Best Jokes are Practical Ones

Mail frauds, April Fools,  and ‘Jaws’ in the toilet An excerpt from Jim Trelease’s family memoir, Looking Backward, used by...
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flyers for stephen the dog
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Flyers for Steven, by Adam Kenworthy

Steven. Steven, is loose. Loose, so I had to go looking for him. I’d been meaning to fix the gate....
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Teardrops by Martin Keaveney
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Teardrops, by Martin Keaveney

The dog had been missing since morning. It was getting late in the day, but I still wasn’t too keen...
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Café de la Paix, flailing
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Flailing, by Samantha Rogers

Last days in August The tarmac heats the rubber soles of my boots. It’s hotter here than I had expected...
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Taylor's Field, used to be Clonbrock House
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What Secrets does Taylor’s Field Hold? by Lorna Sixsmith

Lorna Sixsmith is an Irish author and dairy farmer. Her latest book is Till the Cows Come Home by Black and...
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Aran Island grows potatoes
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Potatoes, by Surnaí Ó Maoildhia

When planted, potatoes are laid out in a particular pattern, like the 5 side of a die. Four corners of...
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Poems by patrick deeley
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Poems by Patrick Deeley

TOBY’S SOLILOQUY To think what stands against me still is not the harm of falling off a ladder at two-storey...
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The Valley of Uggool, where the Irish famine and feast happened
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A Feast and a Famine, by Stephen Reilly

The Irish are renowned storytellers. From Nobel prize winning literature to pub talk we are saturated in stories. We listen...
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