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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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You
You are writing a book. You worry if you will be able to write a book. If people will like it. If it will be a bestseller. Or sell even one copy. To...
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Ginny. Part 4. Ginny in Paris.
Upon his arrival in Paris Ginny spent many days, in wonder, wandering the wide boulevards and narrow streets of his new home town; Rue Lepic, Rue des...
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Ginny. Part 3. Man Ray.
Charles opened the door holding an ActionMan. “I don’t like to leave him alone,” he said. “I suspect he’s been trying to poison my food.” Ginny...
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Ginny. Part 2. the stranglers’ underpants
And it was that Summer, death of mother, metamorphosis from boy into girl and back again, that Ginny and Charles posted a notice on the board of...
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Ginny. Part 1. The Great Cup Diver
Ginny. Part 1. The Great Cup Diver. Ginny’s father dived into a cup for a living. The cup itself was rather larger than the one that appeared on the...
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I hate robins. They are evil
Posted on Thu, 08 Apr 2021
I hate robins. They are evil little dictators. So I enjoyed your poem. Thank you.
Read full commentPosted in Who killed Cock Robin?
Nice ending.
Posted on Fri, 02 Apr 2021
Nice ending.
Read full commentPosted in Marta and the Bug (3-4)
Will be a nice companion
Posted on Thu, 01 Apr 2021
Will be a nice companion novel to Excavatum when they're both out there!
Read full commentPosted in At Least Whiskey
I never knew him and now I
Posted on Thu, 25 Mar 2021
I never knew him and now I miss him.
Read full commentPosted in The Last Time I Saw Fungie (2005)
It feels full of hope! Love
Posted on Tue, 16 Mar 2021
It feels full of hope! Love it.
Read full commentPosted in Vernal Equinox
Ok. So, I like what happens
Posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2021
Ok. So, I like what happens within the story. Getting up to the window is too long. He needs to land on his arse quicker. So I'd cut some there. The monologue about his woes is too long. The speech back and forth between them is excellent. I'd...
Read full commentPosted in Sharks
I love its simplicity, that
Posted on Mon, 01 Mar 2021
I love its simplicity, that of a single moment. But it's so moving.
Read full commentPosted in Hand Washing, Glasgow Central
I loved it. Was there in 1991
Posted on Wed, 03 Mar 2021
I loved it. Was there in 1991. I was a student. And in Milwaukee. As per Flamingo Hotel. It's all true! (Well, not quite.)
Read full commentPosted in New Amsterdam
It's great.
Posted on Sun, 28 Feb 2021
It's great.
One point of style. After a lot of your direct speech, you have, 'sais' and then a present participle...
'McDade sais, tryin tae sound authoritative'
'Scanlon sais, noddin'
'ah sais, scramblin fur...
Read full commentPosted in The Party ay the Year (Part One)
It's lovely. But very sad.
Posted on Wed, 17 Feb 2021
It's lovely. But very sad.
Read full commentPosted in Lyrebird
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