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.
My stories
St Boris's Day
Just effing read it. (I snarled) Image is in the public domain. Source wikipedia commons.
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The Picture Ranch 49
Back there? Again..? Yes. Image from Author's own copy of a US Manual of Arms in PDF form. No known copyright issues.
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The Picture Ranch 48
One day Fisher will catch on to what's going on, but I doubt it... Image source wikipedia commons, in the Public Domain.
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The Picture Ranch 47
This Mulvaney's not a square guy... Image source is wikipedia commons.
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Obverse
nothing new here, carry on... (Carry On... now there's an idea, Carry On Leaving. Politics as double entendre). Anyway, as the image used is from The New European's downloadable Brexit Horror Masks, one would assume permission to use it here is implied, since they don't mind if I download a copy to wear.
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I wonder
Posted on Thu, 31 Jan 2019
what the playground chants are now... we used to parrot chants about Ho Chi Minh, with no clue where Vietnam was. This has that kind of hypnotic rhythm. Cleverly done.
best
Read full commentEwan
Posted in Don't count your chickens
This splendid poem
Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2019
is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet if you like it too.
Read full commentImage is copyright Dave Bevis source is https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3381711 and it is...
Posted in Thanks in part to Louis M and William W: another love poem
Nice
Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2019
to see a dialect word in a poem (jitty) if we don't use them they'll die out. For those of a Yorkshire persuasion it's a ginnel, and if you're Jockinese (like me), it's a close.
Beautifully done.
best
Read full commentEwan
Posted in Thanks in part to Louis M and William W: another love poem
Lots to Enjoy
Posted on Fri, 21 Dec 2018
in this deceptively simple poem. I wonder if wouldn't work better without the first line? You show us all of that in the rest of the poem.
This is particularly beautiful
I turn once more to the laundry.
Read full commentIt is evening now...
Posted in love and laundry
It's worrying
Posted on Tue, 17 Jul 2018
looking back, sometimes. Old pals who took apprenticeships at 16 haven't lifted a tool in 30 years. Policemen some of them, or RAC men. The lucky few might do some shop-fitting though they're time-served carpenters and joiners. One lathe-turner...
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It's funny
Posted on Thu, 07 Jun 2018
if you'd asked me 10 years ago about the cathartic benefits of writing, I'd have laughed in your face. How wrong can one be? I suppose the point is it enables you (me, one etc.) to take your feelings outside and examine them, turning them over to...
Read full commentPosted in Here Are Things
This
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day, it is a skilful two-parter which really drew this reader in.
Please read part two...
Read full commentPosted in Something Hard Inside Him (Part 1)
Glad
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
you ended it here. I am a fan of unresolved fiction, especially in short stories. Skilful writing which drew me in.
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Me too.
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
I hope you don't mind, I've put a link to part two at the bottom. .
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Congratulations
Posted on Thu, 05 Apr 2018
this is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
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