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My stories have been read 360374 times and 159 of my stories have been cherry picked.
289 of my 1,279 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 311 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

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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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Artur and Guillaume (part 3)

He starts to arrange it so he, Guillaume and Vivienne, this being the young beauty’s name, are reading the same book at the same time. In this way,...
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Artur and Guillaume (part 2)

This is the problem. It is not as if he can just apologise, say it was all a big misunderstanding. I’m sorry old chap. No hard feelings. But he has...
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Artur and Guillaume (part 1)

Artur lands heavily on his skinny Gallic arse as he is thrown unceremoniously from the door of Les Jolies Filles brothel, Rue Guy de Maupassant, in...
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Minnesota Fats

Minnesota Fats There isn't much great fiction about pool. In fact, the only book I know of any repute is The Hustler by Walter Tevis. It was made...

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289 of my comments have received 311 Great Feedback votes

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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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Simon, you are always so hard

Posted on Mon, 20 Sep 2021

Simon, you are always so hard on yourself. I love your writing, so unique. You also, nearly always, hint at meanings just out of reach. Murakami does this, but in a completely different way to you. 
 

And so, I definitely recommend...

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Posted in The Wall

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Really good story. 

Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021

Really good story. 

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Posted in With or Without You

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The history lesson works, I

Posted on Sat, 11 Sep 2021

The history lesson works, I think, because it's told in such a particular specific voice. 

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Posted in Troubles

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I would flesh this out more.

Posted on Wed, 08 Sep 2021

I would flesh this out more. What was the room like? What did she look like? Not overdoing it. 
 

And there is too much direct speech. Read it out. Does it sound the way someone speaks? 
 

I like the story tho...

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Posted in Maria and the Bellasis Family 3

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