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I have 227 stories published in 10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 524404 times and 172 of my stories have been cherry picked.
312 of my 1,295 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 338 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

https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store

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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 27

By drew_gummerson on Thu, 11 Nov 2021

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

By drew_gummerson on Wed, 10 Nov 2021

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

By drew_gummerson on Mon, 08 Nov 2021

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

By drew_gummerson on Sun, 07 Nov 2021

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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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 23

By drew_gummerson on Sat, 06 Nov 2021

The human body holds on average ten pints of blood. The blood is pumped around the veins by the heart. The heart is the repository of love. And if...

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312 of my comments have received 338 Great Feedback votes

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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.

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Posted in Pins (21)

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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...

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I loved this, the way it

Posted on Sun, 28 Jun 2026

I loved this, the way it moves from the small to the big - the cosmos.

Congratulations. It's our Pick of the Day.

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Posted in Listen: The Cosmos is Talking to You

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Enjoyed this and it made me

Posted on Tue, 05 May 2026

Enjoyed this and it made me look up the story of Aldie MacKay and it is just as you say. I cycled from Inverness to Loch Ness last year and what a beautiful place.

Congratulations. It's our not so rarely sighted Pick of the Day...

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Posted in May the Second 1933

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