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My stories have been read 229760 times and 133 of my stories have been cherry picked.
123 of my 806 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 127 votes

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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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Meltdown part 3. The Spectacular Death of a Bearded Socialist.

By drew_gummerson on Tue, 07 Jan 2020

Part 3. The Spectacular Death of a Bearded Socialist The money George had left him was beginning to dwindle when the envelope arrived. The power...
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Meltdown part 2. Never Experiment on Yourself

By drew_gummerson on Mon, 06 Jan 2020

Part 2 Never Experiment on Yourself. On the day the Social Worker came to do An Intervention Thor stole a Stylophone from Kev’s Fabulous Keyboards...
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Meltdown part 1. In which Saltburn-by-the-Sea is not mentioned.

By drew_gummerson on Sat, 04 Jan 2020

Part 1. One night, while his mother was out teaching, Thor watched a flickery black and white documentary, mostly in Russian, on their six inch...
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MovieLand! (A Christmas Story. Part 3)

By drew_gummerson on Tue, 24 Dec 2019

Read part 2 here: https://www.abctales.com/story/drewgummerson/movieland-christmas-story-part-2 Part 3 Some researcher based at Leicester University...
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MovieLand! (A Christmas Story part 2)

By drew_gummerson on Tue, 24 Dec 2019

Part 2 Read part 1 here - https://www.abctales.com/story/drewgummerson/movieland-christmas-story-p... While the two boys shaded in the wind turbines...
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123 of my comments have received 127 Great Feedback votes

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Well the next one is set in a

Posted on Tue, 18 Feb 2020

Well the next one is set in a war zone, has a dead sister and a hostage. I haven't written the end. I don't know if it'll be sad but the hostage could lose a few toes.... thanks for reading this one. 

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Posted in The Aquarium. Part 5. I Can’t Make You Love Me.

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So lovely. And sad. 

Posted on Thu, 20 Feb 2020

So lovely. And sad. 

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Posted in To my Best Friend...(Frankie)

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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...

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Posted in Pluto’s ode to Charon

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Really beautiful again. 

Posted on Tue, 18 Feb 2020

Really beautiful again. 

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Posted in Gila Woodpecker

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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. 

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Posted in The Aquarium. Part 5. I Can’t Make You Love Me.

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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... 

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Posted in The Aquarium. Part 5. I Can’t Make You Love Me.

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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  

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Posted in One Night Stand

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I love every line of this. 

Posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2020

I love every line of this. 
 

Drew

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Posted in February

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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. 

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Posted in One Great Scene in Doctor Sleep

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I love the circularity of

Posted on Sun, 02 Feb 2020

I love the circularity of this one. 

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Posted in Eel

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