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My stories have been read 420528 times
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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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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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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 26
Zelig Krüger’s Diary. Pages 14 to finish. To understand anything we must carefully follow the steps that led us to our present destination. Think of...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 25
Chapter 18. After I finished packing I got Zara to call me a taxi. When it came I made it stop at the bank as it was opening up. Zara and I had set...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 24
1971 "I love you, I love you, I love you." Agnes slid out of bed naked and did a kind of pirouette. She was no ballerina and tumbled down onto the...
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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.
Read full commentPosted in Thirteen Letters. Chapter One.
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!
Read full commentPosted in Happy New Year
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...
Read full commentPosted in The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir
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...
Read full commentPosted in I am a Fruit Cake
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
Read full commentPosted in Letters in the attic
That's a typical Sunday for
Posted on Sun, 16 Aug 2020
That's a typical Sunday for me. If you're struggling again, give me a shout. Loved the story, clearly.
Read full commentPosted in The Boy with Tight Underpants
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.
Read full commentPosted in Pins (21)
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
As I said, Nicely done.
Posted on Sat, 05 Jul 2025
As I said, Nicely done.
Congratulations. This is our Pick of the Day.
Read full commentPosted in The lisping god of small things
This is excellent. There's so
Posted on Fri, 04 Jul 2025
This is excellent. There's so much tension and distance to everything - apart from his son.
A couple of things - picky - paragraphs one and two are general and then three he hears the splashing. Goes upstairs. He's describing smells. I...
Read full commentPosted in The Vale - Part 1 (c)
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