Ewan
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19 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 814106 times
and 541 of my stories have been cherry picked.
27 of my 1,776 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 29 votes
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No Armada
Respect. Image is wikipedia commons and in the Public Domain
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- 270 reads
The Picture Ranch 33
Some holes there is no getting out of... image created by author, from PD photo.
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Island People
About us... Inspired by Parson Thru's Boatman's Dream. Read that, it's very good... Image from Wikicommons > permission: Public domain (70 years post mortem auctoris)
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The King of Diamonds
Cards... Image is free for non-commercial use : Author: David Bellot - Berkeley, CA, USA 08/12
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Gone
Flash Fiction... well it is always a girl who's gone, isn't it?
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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
I read quite a few
Posted on Fri, 21 Jul 2017
eye-witness accounts of the evacuation. One of them had this:
Read full comment"the angry hornet noise of dive bombers." So I do not take all the credit for that turn of phrase.
Many of these eye-witness reports were full of such observations, very...
Posted in No Armada
Very well
Posted on Mon, 17 Jul 2017
done, Jack. Entirely believable. You don't actually need any more detail than you've already given. The guy at the end who wanted to watch you do the test again would have been a Flt Lt (Captain equivalent, no more) and the other two would have...
Read full commentPosted in The Best Days of Your Life
Most enjoyable.
Posted on Mon, 17 Jul 2017
Very descriptive, some nice alliteration and imagery. I particularly liked your neologism, 'coolcurled'.
You have a typo, lizard has one 'Z'.
Do you really need to put 'ivy' at the end? A suitable accompanying...
Read full commentPosted in a sort of green
Ah, see, classic imposter
Posted on Sun, 16 Jul 2017
Ah, see, classic imposter syndrome behaviour, denying one's achievements!
Read full comment;-)
Posted in Another one of those
Agree
Posted on Thu, 13 Jul 2017
with Jack re paragraphing. Formatting is still a bit weird "When they emerged from the study etc." is a larger font size.
Read full commentPosted in Restart 1
Really liked this.
Posted on Thu, 13 Jul 2017
You might want to think about the "I"'s lining the page like telegraph poles. It often happens with a first person narrator, I've done it myself. Once it's pointed out you always see it.
Utterly, utterly believable. I hope it's fiction,...
Read full commentPosted in What happens near Rome
hahahahaha...
Posted on Thu, 13 Jul 2017
"statistically, Solihull is safer". Magic. Looking forward to reading more. Love the narrative voice.
Best
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in Restart 1
Chock Full
Posted on Tue, 11 Jul 2017
of real, honest-to-goodness, original kennings. This is my poem of the year on ABC Tales so far. Unfortunately, this award comes with no bonny icons, but it does come with a great deal of respect.
Best
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in Seals in the Currents
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