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I have 2023 stories published in 34 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2385499 times and 1338 of my stories have been cherry picked.
376 of my 3,613 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 409 votes

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Ewan Lawrie

The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
All three Moffat novels are available here

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Time

Should have spent more with them. That's advice I'd give my younger self.
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Tales of the Unconnected

yeah, well, sometimes explaining won't do. Image is from wikipedia... and appropriately unconnected with the poem.
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Message : Post Scriptum

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He Was

He was: smaller than life, older than Springtime, some the wiser, found for words, front for good, scruffy as ninepence, as timid as brass, as hate...
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A Free Lunch [Some words from Liar's Kingdom]

Some words from the middle of Liar's Kingdom - about 22 pages further on in the manuscript. I always have a "bolt-hole" manuscript, for when the main project isn't going well. Liar's Kingdom is now performing this function for Prospero Vint. I've put this with the early parts of LK which I posted on here nearly 10 years ago Image is PD from Wikipedia

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376 of my comments have received 409 Great Feedback votes

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Well done

Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2024

  not quite the ending I was expecting (that's a good thing, BTW) despite the clues.

Not sure about Just Stop Oil's methods myself. Equally, I want to know how long it took them to get to Stonehenge on their pushbikes, because of course...

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Posted in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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A Cancer Diary

Posted on Wed, 14 Jun 2023

 is something that many patients - as my wife was - are advised by the assigned medical team to keep. Very few see the light of day, my wife's didn't, but everyone has to deal with cancer in their own way. I haven't read my wife's diary. We are...

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Posted in Cancer Log 3

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We used to look forward to

Posted on Mon, 09 May 2022

The Day of Victory celebrations every year at Teufelsberg, (West Berlin Listening Post) because it meant there was no operational flying by AFGSFG The Air Force of the Group of Forces Germany, which was what NATO named the Soviet Air Force(s) in...

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Posted in A Final Message From Moscow

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Congratulations, this is our Pick of the Day, 18th November 2024

Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2024

  A very serious subject dealt with in an intelligent yet wryly humorous way.
Cannot praise it highly enough, and that's why it's our pick of the day today.

PLEASE SHARE on your socials if you can. all.

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Posted in Cricks Crocodile

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This is our Pick of the Day 5th September 2024

Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024

This first part of a ghostly tale with a sci-fi twist is our Pick of the Day.
Please, could all readers give it a plug on whatever social media you use?

Well done!

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Posted in Ghostbot (Part One of Two)

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This is our Pick of the Day 29th August 2024

Posted on Sun, 25 Aug 2024

  This continues to fascinate. Off-beat, original and anything but ordinary, that's why it's today's Pick of the Day. Please share on your preferred social media, all.

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Posted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 16

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 20th February 2024

Posted on Tue, 20 Feb 2024

 Taut, terse and intriguing, this is our pick of the day. Please share on whatever social media you use, fellow ABC-ers

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Posted in New Directions (12)

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day Friday 22 Dec 2023

Posted on Thu, 21 Dec 2023

  Written like an 8-and-a-half-year-old Joyce - that's James Joyce, not Joyce Grenfell... Although... No seriously, folks, this captures the breathless jumble of thoughts, half-understood things, fears and hopes of almost any kid of that age....

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Posted in Children of the Absolution

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Those that aren't too far

Posted on Tue, 24 Oct 2023

 on the other side of dementia's curtain can be good company. My dad just shrank away to nothing at all, really. After my dad died, it hit my mum with full force - couldn't tell the time, didn't know what day it was, hiding things. None of which...

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Posted in Message From The Care Home Front

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Congratulations! This is today's Pick of the Day 23rd Aug 2023

Posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2023

 Congratulations. Evokes a time and a place with great skill and that's why it's our pick of the day.

Part One is here if you haven't read it. ...

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Posted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part Two of Two)

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