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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
My stories
A Piece of Ass. Part 6. Grapefruit Moon. Part 1.
Poulton-le-Fylde was a place of gilded palaces of commerce, monuments to men who had died many years ago, electric trams, street-lamps that in other...
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A Piece of Ass. Part 5. The Sugar Plum Fairy
Then the circus came to town. The first Corey knew of it was when, upon opening up Ginny’s Palace, he saw the flyer posted across the window. Stephen...
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A Piece of Ass. Part 4. Mermaid.
Ginny’s Palace was between Rolls , a shop that sold huge sausage rolls, and a children’s ball pit. Over the years every single one of the balls had...
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A Piece of Ass. Part 3. An introduction to Card Sharking
The instructors and other boys were waiting for him at the designated rendezvous point, the statue of a seal, Fidelity, by the train station. Corey...
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A Piece of Ass. Part 2. All the French Singers have bum post cards.
Corey consoled himself with the thought he would be going abroad. He had never been on an aeroplane although once for a birthday treat his parents...
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I know now that Charon is one
Posted on Wed, 19 Feb 2020
I know now that Charon is one of Pluto's moons. And I looked up 'reverse atmosphere' as I didn't have a clue. It's only believed to exist on Pluto (no one's ever been there, but we could send Trump and Boris as they like to be experts on...
Read full commentPosted in Pluto’s ode to Charon
Really beautiful again.
Posted on Tue, 18 Feb 2020
Really beautiful again.
Read full commentPosted in Gila Woodpecker
Thank you. And thank you for
Posted on Tue, 18 Feb 2020
Thank you. And thank you for the mudskippers. They're quite at home here. Will, my bf, saw the Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve on Twitter the other day. You only have to scratch the surface. Even these days.
Read full commentPosted in The Aquarium. Part 5. I Can’t Make You Love Me.
Thanks. The editing of this
Posted on Tue, 18 Feb 2020
Thanks. The editing of this coincided with LGBT+ history month. Which was a coincidence...
Read full commentPosted in The Aquarium. Part 5. I Can’t Make You Love Me.
Yes, I've had some one night
Posted on Mon, 17 Feb 2020
Yes, I've had some one night stands like that. Long time ago. And now I'd prefer a mudskipper, being immersed in all things aquatic. I might put one in the aquarium.
Love the poem
Read full commentPosted in One Night Stand
I love every line of this.
Posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2020
I love every line of this.
Drew
Read full commentPosted in February
I'm really enjoying your film
Posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2020
I'm really enjoying your film pieces btw. The context of you watching them especially, they are warm and kind and say something about you as well as the films.
Read full commentPosted in One Great Scene in Doctor Sleep
I love the circularity of
Posted on Sun, 02 Feb 2020
I love the circularity of this one.
Read full commentPosted in Eel
Just my opinion, but that
Posted on Thu, 30 Jan 2020
Just my opinion, but that looks loads better. And, in line three, call him FF, then it's clear who he is from the beginning. (That's right, isn't it?)
Read full commentPosted in Lose the ivory towers - a novel
I liked it. Although it's
Posted on Thu, 30 Jan 2020
I liked it. Although it's confusing. I'd lose the asterisks, as I think it'd flow better without. And the first time I read it I assumed he was one of the bank robbers... maybe that's just me.
Coincidentally I read a Clemens Meyer...
Read full commentPosted in Lose the ivory towers - a novel
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