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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
As Celticman said, good story
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020
As Celticman said, good story. I think you need to build up the voodoo element, introduce it more slowly. How did he know about voodoo dolls etc? And have more than one thrust of the pin. After doing it the first time there's a recovery and then...
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I mentioned Spike Milligan
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020
I mentioned Spike Milligan the other day. And this reminds me of him too.
Read full commentPosted in Tormentors' Just Desserts
I liked this, like the other
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020
I liked this, like the other one, the strange wasted characters. But like the other one I think you need to put some plot and tension in there. And when I say plot you could do worse than look at Brautigan - in sombrero fallout a sombrero falls...
Read full commentPosted in The Hippy and the Mermaid
It is beautiful and sad. All
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2020
It is beautiful and sad. All loved pets are receptacles of pain.
Read full commentPosted in Iriecat
Is Tom McNulty's the family
Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2020
Is Tom McNulty's the family shop?
You've got too many 'de's in there at the beginning so it becomes a thing.
Cathal needs to be in there in the first line. It's a cautionary tale.
Have you read Damon Runyon...
Read full commentPosted in Make Sure All The Frogs Get Home
If anger's in a drawer I don
Posted on Thu, 28 May 2020
If anger's in a drawer I don't want to enter it... nice one onemore x
Read full commentPosted in Anger
Neither particularly long and
Posted on Sat, 23 May 2020
Neither particularly long and in no way arduous. Deep felt and honest but in a general way that shouldn't make you feel you have posted something overly personal. And very excellent. Obviously. Did I say that?
Drew
Read full commentPosted in How To Be Authentic
Both films are bonkers and
Posted on Sat, 09 May 2020
Both films are bonkers and brilliant.
If allowed, I'd be a blue whale. Because you'd get to see things you'd never otherwise see...
Read full commentPosted in The Exhaustion of the Hunt
I prefer blench. This poem
Posted on Sat, 09 May 2020
I prefer blench. This poem made me think of the film The Killing of the Sacred Deer which in turn made me think of The Lobster. Which I've now just bought. To watch again.
Read full commentPosted in The Exhaustion of the Hunt
Loved it too. And I like the
Posted on Sat, 09 May 2020
Loved it too. And I like the word 'blench'. I didn't know it before. I don't think.
Read full commentPosted in The Exhaustion of the Hunt
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