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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
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Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel (Saturday morning. Sick to the Bottom of your Bum.)
It is 515. The digits click. The alarm whines and you groan. For once the pain is not solely existential. Every time you close your eyes Eusavio is...
Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel (Saturday morning. Before you awake. Room Hopping.)
In this wretched life, it is only our petty animosities and small victories which help us get through the day. For, knowing someone is worse off than...
Friday Night at the Flamingo Hotel (Friday night. Your Love is King part 2)
“Are you crying?” You have made it. You are in your pink suit and you are in The Hot Top Bar and Grill. Eusavio is by your side. He is in a cropped...
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Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel (Friday night. Your Love is King. Part 1.)
You are slumped over a table in The Commodore Club when you are shaken awake and you see a number of swirling Eusavios looking down at you. You think...
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Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel (Friday, at work. The Greatest Love of All. Polye Thylene.)
In the kitchen Angela, the kitchen manager, is standing with Amer, who you have christened Mersault from Camus’ The Outsider . They must be in a...
I enjoyed this. The opening
Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2019
I enjoyed this. The opening line is wonderful. Am I being thick? Are there two Severn Bridges?
Read full commentPosted in Travelling down the Wye Valley 28/10/19
Great again.
Posted on Fri, 01 Nov 2019
Great again.
You just need a sentence I think between '...in the same swamp' and 'You're not going to find....' to break up that big chunk of dialogue.
Read full commentPosted in Jack Goes Nicholson Over the Aardark in his Wallet
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