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My stories have been read 3694130 times and 1400 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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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I Have Other Books

Not much to see here, do carry on. Image author's own.
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Money for the Circus 14

Another bit of this stuff. Wonder how it'll turn out?
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Money for the Circus 13

Another bit. Hmm... I'd rather have drawn the image myself. I will next time.
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Money for the Circus 12

I've been working on this for quite a while. I do that, I get stuck. You probably should go here to read the rest of it first, but I understand if you can't be bothered.
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442 of my comments have received 498 Great Feedback votes

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Just goes to show ...

Posted on Mon, 22 Jun 2026

 nothing is ever wasted. Glad you have exhumed this. I think you've got it spot on regarding what Ghostbusters would be like if they were a local government department. Bravo.

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Posted in Somewhere: Chapter 1 (Pt 2)

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Congratulations, this is our Pick of the Day, 15th June 2026

Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2026

I live in hope of one day seeing all of Craven Danger's adventures in a paperback with a suitably pulp cover, in the meantime, it's today's Pick of the Day.

Do please share it far and wide, ABCTalers.

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Posted in Nighthawks

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Congratulations, this is today's Pick of the Day, 11th Jun 26

Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2026

  This pithy tale with a thoroughly convincing narrative voice is our Social Media Pick of the Day.Well done.

Please share if you like it too, ABCTalers.

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Posted in Mo rún

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Ok

Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2026

Is it that there are no 3 dots top right of your screen when using Edge? There should be an option to view the site in Desktop view, somewhere.

I have found a way to turn on site view as default for Edge, may not work on your device....

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Posted in Mo rún

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Congratulations, this today's Pick of the Day, 30th March 2026

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026

  A fine poem, with sentiments which will chime with many readers - and that's why it's today's Social Media Pick of the Day.

Please do share it on your own social media pages/accounts/et cetera if you can.

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Posted in A Hungry Bear Doesn’t Dance

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It's a

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

 fake, I'm afraid, cobbled together from several images, as indicated in the summary.
Respecting the BBC, there is absolutely no excuse for what the Panorama team did in the editing suite. Trump doesn't need to be edited to sound foolish or...

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Posted in Land of Hope and Fury

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At a Saw Doctors concert

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

 not very long ago, we were informed that MAGA really stands for Make Accordions Great Again

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Posted in Land of Hope and Fury

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Congratulations, This is Today's Pick of the Day, 10th Nov 2025

Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025

 Like being in the pub with JP Donleavy,Roddy Doyle or Dave Allen. Or maybe a combination of all three. Turlough's easy, cosy, self-deprecating humour never fails to make me smile. That's why it's today's Pick of the Day. Do please share on your...

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Posted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin

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This is our Social Media Pick of the Day 22nd September 2025

Posted on Mon, 22 Sep 2025

Odd, frightening, like an episode of The Twilight Zone. It's the detail that grabs the reader ("snakeskin shoes") ... And that's why it's our Social Media Pick of the Day, Well done, Mark.

Do please share, fellow ABCTalers.

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Posted in Homicidal Spreadsheet

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I like this,

Posted on Mon, 08 Sep 2025

  but the formatting has problems.

Stanza three, line 2 has half of what should be the start of line 3 at its end.

In stanza five your punctuation needs to show which are the words of "T'Grim Reaper" (Ho,ho)

'Ay up,' he...

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Posted in It's Grim Up North

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