Ewan
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34 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2827694 times
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389 of my 3,643 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 424 votes
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
Orphic Pleasures
this is so old it was written on vellum ...
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City Slicker
You'll work it out ... Image is PD
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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
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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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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...
Read full commentPosted in Message From The Care Home Front
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. ...
Read full commentPosted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part Two of Two)
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.
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Posted in A Break in the Clouds - my Memories of living at Faslane Peace Camp back in August 1983
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!
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Read full commentPosted in Bed and Board by The Silk Road
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'...
Read full commentPosted in Ugly Puggly 7
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.
Read full commentPlease share and or retweet this splendid poem if you can.
Posted in This Cannot Be Our Home
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...
Read full commentPosted in Listening to the News 2/3/22
Strange and evocative
Posted on Thu, 18 Nov 2021
There is great beauty in your work. Looking forward to your collection.
E x
Read full commentPosted in The Solitude of Sleep
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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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