Ewan
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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.
Both Moffat novels are available here
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Innocents
Nostalgic, twee and sentimental. No, you're quite right, best ignored. Image is free to use: created by Ixan Sinsuke, source pngitem.com
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Self-Help for the Selfish*
If you are offended after reading this, you're probably guilty of it... just like I am. image from Pixabay.com created by Cdd20 and is free to use.
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By No-one's Rhetoric
I always write something on National Poetry Day. This is this year's. Image taken by Humphrey Bolton, source: Wikipedia, licence: CC by 2.0
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When the Time Comes
This is for all the gang in Jersey who kicked the proverbial out of it last weekend, as we always do. image under licence Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) image from https://www.flickr.com/photos/94775792 @N00 Daryn Nakhuda
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Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die
I feel a bit ridiculous going to concerts, at my age. Image is CC0. Song titles (and part thereof in one case) only used.
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I liked this one
Posted on Tue, 03 Aug 2021
very much. You've a good eye for small town life. I knew lots of Bindys when I was that age. It was funny when they came back, they looked the same but they were very different. I never really understood it until I joined the RAF at 21 and went...
Read full commentPosted in Death of a Power Station
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2021
What if, indeed. This great piece from a returning contributor is the story of the lucky escape we get most times we buy a ticket and how we overthink things.
Why not share and/or retweet if you like it too, dear readers?
Read full commentPosted in Being Careful What You Wish For
Ah yes,
Posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2021
what a double-edged sword that big win might be!
You have a typo in the penultimate stanza "op-des" vice "op-eds".
Really splendid writing, Ed.
E x
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Excellent.
Posted on Wed, 17 Mar 2021
Very fine. Whimsical, I agree.
You have a missing apostrophe at line 5 in "Willows favourite".
Always best to keep the fantastic rooted in the everyday. You do that well here.
Well done.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail"
There will be
Posted on Mon, 10 Feb 2020
...but as you know I'm writing Moffat III at the moment (12,000 words and counting). I always have a vanity project going, whilst I'm writing a novel. It helps to dive off into something else completely unrelated. Usually, The Picture Ranch or...
Read full commentPosted in Powerhousing II
Ah well,
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2019
don't we know? "This is John, he...we used to know each other." Joan is about 19, John has been away for 20 years.
Read full commentYes, I know people don't like holes, but I do like clues, rather than telling everything.
Anyway, glad you liked it...
Posted in A Polka Dot Dress
One thing you will
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017
find by doing this, is that your description in any prose you do write will be tighter, more compact, more effective, it's something I was told would happen if I wrote more poetry. I'm not completely sure it has for me, but it will for you....
Read full commentPosted in Tail-end
It's the mothballs
Posted on Tue, 10 Jan 2017
I remember, and the faint smell of Lion pee and Turkish Delight.... hahaha. I do not know anyone who has never explored their parents' wardrobe. When I was 8, my dad's wardrobe had hundreds of football programmes from the 40's and 50's; Rangers...
Read full commentPosted in Grimms5
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Fri, 15 Oct 2021
I always love it when our writers do something a little different. If we give ourselves lines to colour inside, we lose our creative edge. This disturbing account of true events is most deservedly our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please...
Read full commentPosted in Esther Cox
Reminds
Posted on Sat, 09 Oct 2021
me of Tom Waits' Last Leaf (no bad thing, I hasten to add).
Read full commentPosted in The Last Leaf To Fall
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