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My stories have been read 424308 times and 165 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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

Cherry

Advocat for breakfast

I need to go shopping.

NaNoWriMo

Starting on the 1st November and running to the 30th November it is National Novel Writing Month .

Pants!

So the proofs for Me and Mickie James have arrived.
Cherry

Me and Mickie Proofs

I had an email from the publisher telling me the proofs for ‘Me and Mickie James’ are bac
Cherry

Wee

On the first page of ‘The Penguin Variations’ a character has a wee. He is trying to help save the world so he doesn’t flush the toilet. I saw this on a programme on tv.

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302 of my comments have received 322 Great Feedback votes

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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. 

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Posted in Unprecedented

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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. 

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Posted in To wait

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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. 

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Posted in Ash Trees

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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. 

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Posted in Motorway City (Rock'n'Roll will never die)

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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. 

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Posted in Does Anyone Know If There Is A Hotline For Alien Abduction? I'd Like To Request One. We Have Lost Our Collective Minds.

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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. 

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Posted in Snookered

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Love it. Not sure about worms

Posted on Mon, 09 Mar 2020

Love it. Not sure about worms being good enough to eat tho :) Although I do remember getting that book out from the mobile library when I was a kid.... I Can Eat Worms. 

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Posted in Ode to Compost

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Conjures up a lovely image of

Posted on Wed, 04 Mar 2020

Conjures up a lovely image of a Spring day. Took me right there. If only....

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Posted in This Fine Spring Day

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I'm afraid I can't speak to

Posted on Mon, 02 Mar 2020

I'm afraid I can't speak to you anymore Commodore Man. :) 

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Posted in On the Spectrum

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It works perfectly with the

Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2020

It works perfectly with the picture. 

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Posted in Waka for Murasaki Shikibu

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