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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
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...
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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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Perfect for the season.
Posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2021
Perfect for the season.
Read full commentPosted in Mistletoe
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...
Read full commentPosted in I'm Not A Princess.
Really liked the poem. Hate
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
Really liked the poem. Hate robins. Vicious little things. Territorial and grumpy.
Read full commentPosted in Robin At Winter Solstice
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...
Read full commentPosted in Saints and Sinners - A Christmas Fable (Part One of Two)
Great use of 'you' here.
Posted on Sat, 06 Nov 2021
Great use of 'you' here.
Read full commentPosted in Reckoning
Excellent! Well deserving of
Posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021
Excellent! Well deserving of all the praise.
Read full commentPosted in Wintered Thin
Love this.
Posted on Thu, 21 Oct 2021
Love this.
Read full commentPosted in What is Buried at Thresholds
I loved those annuals.
Posted on Thu, 07 Oct 2021
I loved those annuals.
Read full commentPosted in The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 17
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!
Read full commentPosted in I, Caddis
Really good story.
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Really good story.
Read full commentPosted in With or Without You
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