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Drew Gummerson
Author of Me and Mickie James (Jonathan Cape) and The Lodger (GMP), and many stories here and there. Follow me at @drewgum
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Flamingo Dreams
And in other news. My book, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel , which appeared here on AbcTales between October and December 2019 is to be published...
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Sven Goes to War. Part 14. Happy House
It was August 23 rd in the year #### when Sven set off into the desert alone and underwent what he would later refer to as his Damascene Conversion...
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Sven Goes to War. Part 13. Love Vigilantes
Love Vigilantes . Captain Newheart, squat short and with a belly on him that hung grotesquely over his khaki shorts, a physical deformity or a secret...
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Sven Goes to War. Part 12. O mio babbino caro
O mio babbino caro The town of S was a thriving metropolis of four streets. Here were: tea rooms with gilded vaulted ceilings pool halls, the men...
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Sven Goes to War. Part 11. Between the Wars
Between the Wars. It was all very straightforward. The base was housed in a former pickle factory on the outskirts of S. Climb up by a series of...
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Another great poem. I'm
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2020
Another great poem. I'm pining for more. (Sorry. That was awful.). Drew.
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Good, isn't it? I've not got
Posted on Fri, 15 May 2020
Good, isn't it? I've not got to end yet but I will.
Read full commentPosted in Lost Dog 8
I will. The problem is I'm
Posted on Thu, 12 Mar 2020
I will. The problem is I'm reading WG Sebald. Who writes in very long dense, brilliant, sentences. And all these stories initially were started after reading Camilla Grudova. I dream of being these people and in the end it comes out sounding like...
Read full commentPosted in Sven Goes to War. Part 1. Warriors of the Wasteland
Brilliant. Loved it. And what
Posted on Sun, 28 Jun 2020
Brilliant. Loved it. And what a great idea. National Insect Week.
Read full commentPosted in Bluebottle
As Celticman said, good story
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020
As Celticman said, good story. I think you need to build up the voodoo element, introduce it more slowly. How did he know about voodoo dolls etc? And have more than one thrust of the pin. After doing it the first time there's a recovery and then...
Read full commentPosted in I Can Never Say Sorry…
I mentioned Spike Milligan
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020
I mentioned Spike Milligan the other day. And this reminds me of him too.
Read full commentPosted in Tormentors' Just Desserts
I liked this, like the other
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020
I liked this, like the other one, the strange wasted characters. But like the other one I think you need to put some plot and tension in there. And when I say plot you could do worse than look at Brautigan - in sombrero fallout a sombrero falls...
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Loved it!
Posted on Sat, 20 Jun 2020
Loved it!
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It is beautiful and sad. All
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2020
It is beautiful and sad. All loved pets are receptacles of pain.
Read full commentPosted in Iriecat
Is Tom McNulty's the family
Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2020
Is Tom McNulty's the family shop?
You've got too many 'de's in there at the beginning so it becomes a thing.
Cathal needs to be in there in the first line. It's a cautionary tale.
Have you read Damon Runyon...
Read full commentPosted in Make Sure All The Frogs Get Home
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