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I have 227 stories published in 10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 506665 times and 172 of my stories have been cherry picked.
311 of my 1,290 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 335 votes

Drew Gummerson

Author of Me and Mickie James (Jonathan Cape) and The Lodger (GMP), and many stories here and there. Follow me at @drewgum. Seven Nights At The Flamingo Hotel is coming November 2020. Pre-order here https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store

https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store

My collections

249 words....

Bodily Parts and Other Tales

Darts

Kuper’s Tube

Notes from a small brain

Poemmmmssss

Storiesssssss

Stunning Adventures of the Mini People of Timbuktu

The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir

Unordered Tales

My stories

Joe - a dinosaur theme park story with hotdogs.

By drew_gummerson on Fri, 10 Apr 2026

Joe This morning Hodges tells me I’m on triceratops. I don’t do triceratops I say and he says you don’t do triceratops there’s a million other smart-...

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Minority Report part 2

By drew_gummerson on Mon, 02 Feb 2026

Read Part 1 K felt seen. The next night he avoided The Duck, and the one after that. He found himself a new boozer, insalubrious, down by the old...

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Certificate 18

Minority Report Part 1

By drew_gummerson on Mon, 02 Feb 2026

A mindreader called K, who changed his name to Yak, came to a seaside town not intending to kill the ventriloquist. Window hit by rain, diffused...

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Certificate 18

You are surprised as a published writer…

By drew_gummerson on Thu, 24 Jul 2025

You are surprised, as a published author, by how many people have not read your book. You board a train, you look at all the faces as you walk down...

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Certificate 15

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Born on the 4th of July

By drew_gummerson on Fri, 04 Jul 2025

Born on the 4th July Johnny has signed up to join the military. He’s leaving in the morning. And this is after his big brother was killed in an F-14...

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311 of my comments have received 335 Great Feedback votes

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Thank you all for your

Posted on Fri, 10 Apr 2026

Thank you all for your comments! And it's actually a very serious story. Youth unemployment. Generational poverty. Lack of health and safery regulation. Unrequited love. Lack of affordable housing. Badly conceived government intervention....

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Jean. Thank you for sharing

Posted on Thu, 22 Jun 2023

Jean. Thank you for sharing your story. It is harrowing to read but you write beautifully and clearly. This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

I struggled to think of an appropriate image but in the end I settled upon a...

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