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I have 226 stories published in 10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 490915 times and 169 of my stories have been cherry picked.
310 of my 1,326 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 333 votes

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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. Seven Nights At The Flamingo Hotel is coming November 2020. Pre-order here https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store

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American Made

WARNING: This story contains foul language, scenes of a sexual nature, drug taking, violence, murder. In 300 words. American Made K has become a drug...
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Troy and Me (A Christmas Tale) Part 2

Troy and Me (A Christmas Tale) Part 2. Read Part 1 The guy shepherded us down the corridor to where Santa was sitting on his throne. Santa initially...
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Troy and Me (A Christmas Tale) Part 1

Troy and Me It was round about Christmas when Troy knocked on my door and told me that he was going to lose his arm. “The doctors told me they can’t...
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Falling Upwards

Falling upwards . (Extract from Meltdown for AbcTales Reading Event) On the day the Social Worker came to do An Intervention Arthur stole a...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 27

1971 Agnes wondered if all boys were, when you got down to it, as blunt as Benjamin. Why couldn't he just tell her that he loved her? Or walk with...

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310 of my comments have received 333 Great Feedback votes

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Really enjoyed this. And part

Posted on Tue, 30 Aug 2022

Really enjoyed this. And part 1. 

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Posted in Nanny part 2

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Really enjoyed this. And part

Posted on Tue, 30 Aug 2022

Really enjoyed this. And part 2. So, congratulations, your Nanny is our Pick of the Day. 

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Posted in Nanny part 1

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Congratulations Grace this is

Posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2022

Congratulations Grace this is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Great start and want to know what happens next. 
 

Image is from Pixabay https://...

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Posted in Thirteen Letters. Chapter One.

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Haha. We both said intrigued!

Posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2022

Haha. We both said intrigued! So it must be true. 

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Posted in Thirteen Letters. Chapter One.

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Congratulations Paul. This is

Posted on Thu, 31 Dec 2020

Congratulations Paul. This is our Pick of the Day. Please share!!! 
 

And Happy New Year! 

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Posted in Happy New Year

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I've read the whole thing now

Posted on Thu, 02 Sep 2021

I've read the whole thing now. 70,000 words. 
 

I couldn't remember if these characters from this prologue appeared in the rest of the book. And I'm pleased to say they do. Quite a lot. 
 

I am also pleased to find out...

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Posted in The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir

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Congratulations! This is our

Posted on Tue, 23 Mar 2021

Congratulations! This is our Facebook And Twitter Pick of the Day. Please retweet and share with a cup of tea. 
 

Don't worry, the picture's not Stollen it's from...

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Posted in I am a Fruit Cake

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Excellent. Takes me back to

Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2021

Excellent. Takes me back to the time when I wrote endless letters to my friends 

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Posted in Letters in the attic

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I'm really enjoying it but

Posted on Fri, 31 Jul 2020

I'm really enjoying it but finding it confusing too... I don't think it's supposed to be clear, it's that sense of not knowing how it all fits together that carries it forward. 

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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...

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Posted in Sven Goes to War. Part 1. Warriors of the Wasteland

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