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I have 220 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 330439 times
and 157 of my stories have been cherry picked.
289 of my 1,319 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 310 votes
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
The Writer is in...
The writer is in. Do you remember those scenes from Charlie Brown? Lucy is the dr, she has a wooden booth, and Charlie Brown goes to visit her.
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- 791 reads
Seasons End
My top 10 books of the year.
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- 1232 reads
Shock! Horror! Plot in Crisis!
John Richardson was interviewed on Front Row this week. For the past 30 years he has been writing the biography of Picasso.
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- 981 reads
The Only Way to Rob a Bank is Naked
I’m a big fan of public transport. It’s the people they let on it that bothers me. In the same way I’m a big fan of democracy. It just depends whose hands it’s in.
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My life as a frog
I was a precocious child. I went straight from Peter and Jane to Lady Windermere’s Fan. Of course I returned later to Enid Blyton but it was with a certain aesthetic detachment.
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I would love someone to
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2020
I would love someone to 'weave sunbeams' and 'streak radioactive across purpled midnights'. What lovely words.
Read full commentPosted in If You Were A Comet
Beautiful and sad. Drew.
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
Beautiful and sad. Drew.
Read full commentPosted in He Knew
I did!
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
I did!
Read full commentPosted in Deimos
A really beautiful poem for
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
A really beautiful poem for our times.
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Last week's dystopian fantasy
Posted on Fri, 20 Mar 2020
Last week's dystopian fantasy is this week's autobiography. And I like how it contain's a faux autobiography within it.
Read full commentPosted in Unprecedented
A very calm precise poem, and
Posted on Tue, 17 Mar 2020
A very calm precise poem, and wise words in light of the current panic stations.
Read full commentPosted in To wait
Lovely to hear you read this.
Posted on Sun, 15 Mar 2020
Lovely to hear you read this. It doesn't sound like ash trays. Beautiful.
Read full commentPosted in Ash Trees
Sounds like a plan. Rock and
Posted on Fri, 13 Mar 2020
Sounds like a plan. Rock and roll will never die while you're still rocking and rolling.
Read full commentPosted in Motorway City (Rock'n'Roll will never die)
I enjoyed this. It's such a
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2020
I enjoyed this. It's such a strange situation we're in that it feels like fiction.
Read full commentPosted in Does Anyone Know If There Is A Hotline For Alien Abduction? I'd Like To Request One. We Have Lost Our Collective Minds.
Nice to see a poem about
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2020
Nice to see a poem about snooker. I love snooker. And I recommend Gordan Burns book Pocket Money.
Read full commentPosted in Snookered
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