Mark Burrow

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My stories

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Fun Time

FUN TIME Andy sat on the bed in the backpacker hotel in Bangkok. His friends had flown home and he was by himself. He was drinking this awful cheap...
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Holiday Snaps

HOLIDAY SNAPS The brass bell didn't used to offend Jamie Roberts. It was fun in a being-whacky-at-work kind of a way. After a couple of months, he...
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Mud Pie's Revenge

MUD PIE'S REVENGE Joshua Preece unbuttoned his Agnes B shirt and dropped it onto the tiled bathroom floor. He looked at his white fat stomach. He...
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In My Local

IN MY LOCAL She's cracking up. She thinks he's a comedian. All this evening was supposed to be was a quiet drink in the pub. The two of us. And then...
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Staff Meal

STAFF MEAL Phillip Crane clicked the right mouse button and cut &; pasted numbers from cell C4 to F4. His colleague, Sue, a credit controller,...

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205 of my comments have received 216 Great Feedback votes

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Wistful is the word. It has

Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020

Wistful is the word. It has this sense of memories ebbing and flowing. "We can make-believe it's Sunday, when the silence is only the pause before we begin again..." Superb. 

 

 

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I love how the imagery and

Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2020

I love how the imagery and dialogue are interlaced. The cloud imagery against the shop works really well together. You build a mood of lives changing in mundane moments, especially in the exchange where the guy says,  "Shur I’ve me whole life...

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Posted in You Wouldn't Call It An Earthquake Exactly

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I liked how this immediately

Posted on Sat, 23 May 2020

I liked how this immediately carried me along. It's hard to do so hats off. Some cracking turns of phrase too - "the cold flannel of facts". I might have to use that!

Thanks for posting this.  

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Posted in How To Be Authentic

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It's fantastic news, Drew,

Posted on Sat, 09 May 2020

It's fantastic news, Drew, and well deserved. What I enjoyed the most about Flamingo is the energy and that it didn't sound like anyone else. It reminded me of other writers I admire but you have your own style and craft and that'll see you...

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Posted in Flamingo Dreams

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I always think of ghosts as

Posted on Fri, 08 May 2020

I always think of ghosts as our most powerful memories.

Lovely poem. 

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Posted in All the lost places

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This caught some of the

Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2019

This caught some of the feelings I've had but never thought to put into words.

Really liked this: we darted the portrait galleries / of these fragments of lives / chipped into stone.

Superb. 

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Posted in Graveyards

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Enjoyed this -- lyrical and

Posted on Sat, 26 Oct 2019

Enjoyed this -- lyrical and strangely fierce at the same time.  

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Posted in Wood Anemones

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