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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
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 18
The Second Translation. Zelig Krüger’s Diary. Pages 2 & 3 A library! The lift doors had opened and there it was. Although I had never seen one...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 17
Chapter 11. After having been so forcibly and humiliatingly expelled by McPhearson and his cronies I made my way back to the library, stopping only...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 16
Extract from The Ministry of Complaints The swoosh of air from the closing doors puffed out their candle and for several long moments they stood in...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 15
1961 "Can Uncle Vickers read to me? Please mum. Please dad." Vickers precluded the question by pushing himself up and putting a hand flat on Agnes’s...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 14
Extract from The Ministry of Complaints Hans Walter Neumann couldn't remember his journey home. All he knew was that now he was staring at his own...
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This is great. Captures
Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024
This is great. Captures perfectly the grind of every day life and worries.
Although I've never heard a Taylor Swift song it's still my choice for the Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
Read full commentPosted in On the Wind
This is really fine writing
Posted on Wed, 25 Sep 2024
This is really fine writing Sean. How far are you into finishing this?
Read full commentPosted in INSECT!
I too am sorry to hear you
Posted on Wed, 24 Jul 2024
I too am sorry to hear you are in pain.
I loved your poem. It is our Pick of the Day. I am sorry it is late. I read this earlier and then life intruded.
Read full commentPosted in Suspended Between Two Worlds
You had me at Top Gun.
Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024
You had me at Top Gun. Congratulations. This is our Pick of the Day.
Read full commentPosted in New Morning Routine
Really enjoyed this.
Posted on Sat, 11 May 2024
Really enjoyed this.
Read full commentPosted in How inscrutable his ways
Loved this!
Posted on Sat, 30 Mar 2024
Loved this!
Congratulations. This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of Day.
Read full commentPosted in Passion Of The Drums
I went to a junior school on
Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024
I went to a junior school on a rough council estate. They used to announce in assembly when someone had gone on to get a single O level and we would all stand and clap. A few of us were chosen to sit the 11 Plus and we had special lessons with...
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I thought it was great!
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
I thought it was great!
Read full commentPosted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
This is an excellent piece of
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
This is an excellent piece of writing Di. I loved the beginning, the middle and the end.
Congratulations it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
Read full commentPosted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Sean, loved this. Some great
Posted on Sat, 27 Jan 2024
Sean, loved this. Some great language in there. Made me smile.
And congratulations. It's our Facebook and X Pixed of the Day.
Read full commentPosted in Filthy Old Machines
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