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I have 2033 stories published in 34 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2827694 times and 1349 of my stories have been cherry picked.
389 of my 3,643 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 424 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

My stories

Gold cherry

Sodality

Whatever ...
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Poem of the week

Orphic Pleasures

this is so old it was written on vellum ...
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Cherry

City Slicker

You'll work it out ... Image is PD

Little Golden Fishes

little golden fishes that the guiris drop in la fuente on the way to the clubs and bars from the fairground float side up in the fountain
Cherry

The Vagabond Heirs of Francisco Franco

They sit in every cafe-bar named after the street on whose corner it squats. Smoking, small-eyed, wall-eyed moustachioed muchachos remembering kisses...

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389 of my comments have received 424 Great Feedback votes

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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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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Sun, 02 Oct 2022

A slice of history, almost 40 years ago. I was in uniform then, Air Force blue, but admired those at Faslane and Greenham. Futile in the end, but what days of innocence and belief.
Please share and/or retweet this excellent depiction of a...

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Posted in A Break in the Clouds - my Memories of living at Faslane Peace Camp back in August 1983

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2022

Succinct and vivid, this poem takes you there, and that's why it's our Pick of the Day.

Congratulations!

Please, dear readers, share and/or retweet on SM

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Posted in Bed and Board by The Silk Road

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Love this so far,

Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022

Jack.
I do have one quibble. Ugly Puggly's last two bits of dialogue are a bit didactic. Whilst the sentiment behind the words is true, it comes over as a little authorial, even though the words come out of UP's mouth. This:

"we can'...

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Posted in Ugly Puggly 7

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Mon, 14 Mar 2022

A splendid depiction of ourselves as a parasitic blight on Gaia itself. Skilfully done and with possibly the first use of 'Agrestal' I've ever seen in a poem.
Please share and or retweet this splendid poem if you can.

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Posted in This Cannot Be Our Home

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One of the hard truths

Posted on Wed, 02 Mar 2022

is that our armed forces are not up to contributing to a coalition force at the same level as that which went to Iraq. Or indeed to Afghanistan. This is fine. Limiting defence spending to sufficient to defend the realm is sensible. Just don't...

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Posted in Listening to the News 2/3/22

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Strange and evocative

Posted on Thu, 18 Nov 2021

There is great beauty in your work. Looking forward to your collection. 

E x

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Posted in The Solitude of Sleep

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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?

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Posted in Being Careful What You Wish For

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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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Posted in Being Careful What You Wish For

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