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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
A Piece of Ass. Part 6. Grapefruit Moon. Part 1.
Poulton-le-Fylde was a place of gilded palaces of commerce, monuments to men who had died many years ago, electric trams, street-lamps that in other...
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A Piece of Ass. Part 5. The Sugar Plum Fairy
Then the circus came to town. The first Corey knew of it was when, upon opening up Ginny’s Palace, he saw the flyer posted across the window. Stephen...
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A Piece of Ass. Part 4. Mermaid.
Ginny’s Palace was between Rolls , a shop that sold huge sausage rolls, and a children’s ball pit. Over the years every single one of the balls had...
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A Piece of Ass. Part 3. An introduction to Card Sharking
The instructors and other boys were waiting for him at the designated rendezvous point, the statue of a seal, Fidelity, by the train station. Corey...
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A Piece of Ass. Part 2. All the French Singers have bum post cards.
Corey consoled himself with the thought he would be going abroad. He had never been on an aeroplane although once for a birthday treat his parents...
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Agreed. A ray of hope.
Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2020
Agreed. A ray of hope.
Read full commentPosted in I Tell Myself This When I Am Afraid
Glisk and glassiness work so
Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2020
Glisk and glassiness work so well together.
As Thom Gunn said, One is always nearer by not keeping still.
Read full commentPosted in Walking Away
Love it. Congratulations.
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
Love it. Congratulations.
Read full commentPosted in Deimos
The poem is sentimental in
Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020
The poem is sentimental in the best possible way. I love the move from whale to herring (and its sorrow) to us. It is comparable to Philip Pullman's way of describing death. We become dust, part of the atmosphere. Or here, of the sea. Wonderful...
Read full commentPosted in The Sea is Sentimental
Another really brilliant
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Another really brilliant first line - so unusual an image. And your poem fits perfectly with the picture.
Read full commentPosted in Barn Owls
Agree with the above and I
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Agree with the above and I mentioned before that we live in strange times when what would have been fiction is now our reality. The clip I love too... the words all the more poignant than ever. Someone at work said to me yesterday that when all...
Read full commentPosted in Whispers
I liked this - quickly sets
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
I liked this - quickly sets the scene, and I like the way it pans out with the phone call. Couple of tiny things. 'fuck you quickly' needs some punctuation. Because I just read it as 'fuck you quickly'. An exclamation mark after 'fuck'? ...
Read full commentPosted in Jungle
It's a great first line.
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
It's a great first line. Because everything builds and develops from there.
Read full commentPosted in Starling
Completely brilliant. A
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2020
Completely brilliant. A procession of unusual, startling images that have absolute clarity in their absurdity. And I've seen the wolves, they're at the end of the pier, dancing a slow waltz while sucking on popsicles.
Read full commentPosted in A naked boulevardian
Agree with all of the above.
Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2020
Agree with all of the above. Inspired concise storytelling. Fabulous. And it would make a great little film in itself.
Read full commentPosted in Dundee
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