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151 of my 942 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 158 votes
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.
My stories
Meltdown part 3. The Spectacular Death of a Bearded Socialist.
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
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.
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)
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)
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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Lovely to hear you read this.
Posted on Sun, 15 Mar 2020
Lovely to hear you read this. It doesn't sound like ash trays. Beautiful.
Read full commentPosted in Ash Trees
Sounds like a plan. Rock and
Posted on Fri, 13 Mar 2020
Sounds like a plan. Rock and roll will never die while you're still rocking and rolling.
Read full commentPosted in Motorway City (Rock'n'Roll will never die)
I enjoyed this. It's such a
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2020
I enjoyed this. It's such a strange situation we're in that it feels like fiction.
Read full commentPosted in Does Anyone Know If There Is A Hotline For Alien Abduction? I'd Like To Request One. We Have Lost Our Collective Minds.
Nice to see a poem about
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2020
Nice to see a poem about snooker. I love snooker. And I recommend Gordan Burns book Pocket Money.
Read full commentPosted in Snookered
Love it. Not sure about worms
Posted on Mon, 09 Mar 2020
Love it. Not sure about worms being good enough to eat tho :) Although I do remember getting that book out from the mobile library when I was a kid.... I Can Eat Worms.
Read full commentPosted in Ode to Compost
Conjures up a lovely image of
Posted on Wed, 04 Mar 2020
Conjures up a lovely image of a Spring day. Took me right there. If only....
Read full commentPosted in This Fine Spring Day
I'm afraid I can't speak to
Posted on Mon, 02 Mar 2020
I'm afraid I can't speak to you anymore Commodore Man. :)
Read full commentPosted in On the Spectrum
It works perfectly with the
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2020
It works perfectly with the picture.
Read full commentPosted in Waka for Murasaki Shikibu
Thank you. Enjoyed this one
Posted on Mon, 24 Feb 2020
Thank you. Enjoyed this one too.
I recommend Donjong Heights by Ben Borek, The Golden Gate by Vickram Seth or Eugene Onegin by Pushkin. They are novels in verse form.
Read full commentPosted in What was stolen?
I agree. Nothing's the same.
Posted on Mon, 24 Feb 2020
I agree. Nothing's the same. It just feels the same.
Read full commentPosted in From Jester To King L
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