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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

My stories

Sitges, Sitges, Sitges

So said the barwoman of the hotel terrace bar. We we looking down on the church, at a green laser light playing on the ground. It was nothing really, like something a kid would have.

How I Write

I try and write every day although this is not always possible.

On Being Disembodied

On Saturday night I’m going to be disembodied. Come along if you want to listen.

Writing Tip no 39

Some people ask me, ‘Where do stories come from?’

I'm the head of a matchstick, I'm a number seven, I'm a...

This week I’m just making shapes. I’m the head of a matchstick, I’m a number seven, I’m a box of Cuban cigars on an ageing dictator’s desk.

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307 of my comments have received 329 Great Feedback votes

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Really enjoyed this passage

Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2021

Really enjoyed this passage to India Paul. 
 

Drew. 

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Posted in The Haunted Fort of Bhangarh

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I agree. One great poem after

Posted on Fri, 08 Jan 2021

I agree. One great poem after another. 

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Posted in Night With Her Train Of Stars

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Excellent Paul. 

Posted on Thu, 31 Dec 2020

Excellent Paul. 

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Posted in Happy New Year

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Really good story. 

Posted on Wed, 30 Dec 2020

Really good story. 
 

You've left your edits at the end? 
 

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Posted in The ticket (Chapter One)

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The last line made me laugh.

Posted on Thu, 17 Dec 2020

The last line made me laugh. I was plagued by a robin during the writing of Flamingo Hotel by a robin. It used to come and tap on the kitchen door. I would scare it away, scare it away. Then it would go to the front door. Tap there. 
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Posted in What The Robin Knows by Jon Young

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Really fabulous Christmas

Posted on Wed, 09 Dec 2020

Really fabulous Christmas story this. Loved it. 
 

Drew 

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Posted in It's (Still) a Wonderful Life

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I particularly liked 'brides

Posted on Sun, 29 Nov 2020

I particularly liked 'brides of snow and ice' and their wings as 'new moons'. 
 

They are the strangest creatures though aren't they, the evil giraffe of the bird-world. 

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Well, there is The Birdland

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2020

Well, there is The Birdland Bar in Flamingo Hotel - home to (stuffed) exotic birds, a singles night, a wedding and a cat funeral. 

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Posted in Monsoon

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Haha! Yes. 

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2020

Haha! Yes. 

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Posted in Monsoon

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I once got caught in a

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2020

I once got caught in a monsoon on Skikoku. But that's another story. 
 

This is another poem. And I love it. 
 

Drew

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