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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 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...
Cherry

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...
Cherry

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...
Cherry

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...
Cherry

The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 13

1956 part 2 "Two buggers together. What do you say? It'll be jolly good fun." The next time they met up, at another viewing of Casablanca , neither...

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310 of my comments have received 334 Great Feedback votes

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Really enjoyed this. 

Posted on Sat, 11 May 2024

Really enjoyed this. 

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Posted in How inscrutable his ways

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Loved this!

Posted on Sat, 30 Mar 2024

Loved this!

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Posted in Passion Of The Drums

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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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Posted in Land of Make Believe

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I thought it was great! 

Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024

I thought it was great! 

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Posted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024

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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. 

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Posted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024

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Really enjoyed reading this. 

Posted on Tue, 05 Dec 2023

Really enjoyed reading this. 
 

Congratulations. It's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day (well, I'll pick the first part). Are you keeping up your 100 word a day habit. 

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - November 2023 – Second Half

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Loved this. Riddles always

Posted on Tue, 14 Nov 2023

Loved this. Riddles always make me think of Gollum. And that's a good thing. 
 

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Posted in Blackthorn

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Congratulations Turlough this

Posted on Mon, 31 Jul 2023

Congratulations Turlough this is our Pick of the Day. 

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Posted in Mucky Maureen

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Beautiful. 

Posted on Wed, 02 Aug 2023

Beautiful. 

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Posted in Under Late Spring Sky

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Agree with Mark. The switch

Posted on Tue, 01 Aug 2023

Agree with Mark. The switch isn't clear. I just took it that he had deleted his memories but was still living in the real world. I liked it tho. And agree with the Bladerunner connection. 

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Posted in Second Life

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