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My stories have been read 330457 times and 157 of my stories have been cherry picked.
289 of my 1,319 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 310 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. Seven Nights At The Flamingo Hotel is coming November 2020. Pre-order here https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store

My stories

Cherry

Flamingo Hotel. The interview.

Seven Nights. The Interview. First off, isn’t it a bit unusual to interview yourself? Well, I saw the Chris McCabe do it in his book Dedalus and that...
Cherry

3. Nancy the elephant. A mime artiste. The Wall.

Read Part 2. A stick of rock. Some nudity. A man dressed like a magician. The town of O____ lies on the East side of the fast flowing D____ river,...
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Cherry

2. A stick of rock. Some nudity. A man dressed like a magician.

(Read part 1: A cup of tea. A bogey. The President. ) And so pulled together the days pass and the days pass. Each morning, at exactly eight fifty-...
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1. A cup of tea. A bogey. The President.

It is twelve o’clock in the afternoon and all is silent in Kuper’s Tube , “ just 18 steps from the High Street!, the place where all you postcard...
Cherry

Flamingo Hotel. Bookings Now Open.

My novel, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel is now available to pre-order. You can do it here . It will be Bearded Badger Press’s launch title and...

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289 of my comments have received 310 Great Feedback votes

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Perfect for the season. 

Posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2021

Perfect for the season. 

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Posted in Mistletoe

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I fell over the dog the other

Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021

I fell over the dog the other month. As he pulled towards another dog. I kind of did a forward roll. Like this was the kind of thing I normally did. Like Gene Wilder. In Willy Wonker. It was only a hundred yards along the path I realised one of...

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Posted in I'm Not A Princess.

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Really liked the poem. Hate

Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021

Really liked the poem. Hate robins. Vicious little things. Territorial and grumpy. 

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Posted in Robin At Winter Solstice

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This is excellent Paul. A

Posted on Sun, 12 Dec 2021

This is excellent Paul. A couple of things. The first sentence. I would go 'Bill Doherty rocked gently on..'

 

His job and ennui come out in the story. You don't need that lurch between the first sentences. 
 

Paragraph...

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Posted in Saints and Sinners - A Christmas Fable (Part One of Two)

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Great use of 'you' here. 

Posted on Sat, 06 Nov 2021

Great use of 'you' here. 

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Posted in Reckoning

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Excellent! Well deserving of

Posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021

Excellent! Well deserving of all the praise. 

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Posted in Wintered Thin

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Intense. And excellent. 

Posted on Thu, 28 Oct 2021

Intense. And excellent. 

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Posted in Pain au chocolat

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Love this. 

Posted on Thu, 21 Oct 2021

Love this. 

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Posted in What is Buried at Thresholds

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I loved those annuals. 

Posted on Thu, 07 Oct 2021

I loved those annuals. 

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Posted in The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 17

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Congratulations Ed! No flies

Posted on Wed, 29 Sep 2021

Congratulations Ed! No flies on you. This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please share! 

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Posted in I, Caddis

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