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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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Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. (Tuesday morning. Before you awake. A bum history.)
When you are fourteen your best friend is Peter. He is on the football team and he lives just with his mother who is an alcoholic. He also had a...
Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel (part 4. Monday to end.)
But walking back towards the hotel you feel inspired. You do not know why but you do. Maybe it is being out in the world once more! Look at that...
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Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel (Monday. Part 3)
You step back into the kitchen and as you are alert to the many forms of primal fear you feel a change in the atmosphere. Angela has her head in her...
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Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. (Monday, part 2)
You are running late and although it is not allowed, staff being strictly forbidden to be seen when not necessary in the public areas of the hotel,...
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Seven Nights in the Flamingo Hotel
At five o’clock in the morning you are woken by the sounds of the couple in the next room arguing and this surprises you because the previous night...
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Oh yes, me too. I love the
Posted on Tue, 05 Nov 2019
Oh yes, me too. I love the unexpected use of flowers. I particularly like, 'She had a lilac core' and the final 2 lines, because the admiration comes across in a completely unsentimental way. Steadfast.
Read full commentPosted in The Language of Dead Flowers
I'm enjoying this more and
Posted on Tue, 05 Nov 2019
I'm enjoying this more and more as I'm getting to know the characters and the conflicts between them. The setting is original. I'm looking forward to what is going to happen next.
Read full commentPosted in The Bloody Gorgon
I enjoyed this. The opening
Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2019
I enjoyed this. The opening line is wonderful. Am I being thick? Are there two Severn Bridges?
Read full commentPosted in Travelling down the Wye Valley 28/10/19
Great again.
Posted on Fri, 01 Nov 2019
Great again.
You just need a sentence I think between '...in the same swamp' and 'You're not going to find....' to break up that big chunk of dialogue.
Read full commentPosted in Jack Goes Nicholson Over the Aardark in his Wallet
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