Ewan

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My stories have been read 3539404 times and 1388 of my stories have been cherry picked.
427 of my 3,617 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 473 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

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An Anarchist Evening at the Magic Theatre

What do you mean you don't understand it? I was hoping you'd explain it to me! More Sack-like than Hessian... Image PD from wikipedia
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Next Year, I'm Going to Travel

Travel as metaphor? Probably not... Image: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0> , via Wikimedia Commons

Juke Box Jive

As simple as it gets. Image from flicker.com : CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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Imperfect Beauty

... and by that token, this is very beautiful indeed. Image author's own.
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Eve Still Spins

Umm... I'm sure you'll figure it out. Image is PD painting is in Carlisle Art Gallery, attributed to Italian School c.1650

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427 of my comments have received 473 Great Feedback votes

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Robert Palmer

Posted on Fri, 23 Feb 2024

 Proper Yorkshireman. (I always read the summaries).

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Posted in Johnny Ten Levs

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Mexico '70

Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024

... Brazil... a player who couldn't head the ball because of eye problems. Tostao at centre forward, when he was really a winger. But they already had two. Rivelinho with his blasted free-kicks. Jairzinho (no not that berk at Middlesbro'), Pele...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Starter

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Congratulations this is our Pick of the Day Jan 19th 2024

Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024

  Well done.

Please share far and wide, fellow ABCTalers

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Posted in Enoshima (Part One of Two)

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In that case,

Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024

 welcome to the club. :-D

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Posted in Only Here for The Poets

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Splendid as usual,

Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024

  worth the read for Middle Eastenders alone.

I do love some of the pet/nicknames other languages have. I believe Mahtab can be rendered as 'Splendour of the Moon'. Beautiful, that.

Do keep going. I believe you have the raw...

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Posted in Only Here for The Poets

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 16th Jan 2024

Posted on Tue, 16 Jan 2024

 Funny, thought-provoking and sci-fi, what more could we want? This continuing story deserves all the readers it can get, that's why it's our pick of the day. Do, please do your bit, fellow ABCTales readers, by sharing it on Social Media.

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 13

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 3rd Jan 2024

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

 Funny, erudite and sly, this is our Pick of the Day. Well done.

Please could those ABC-ers who can share this on such Social Media as they use.

If one person succeeds, we all succeed.

E.

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Posted in Cernunnos

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 Licking your duvet, Eh?

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

You spend too much time with those cats!

Keep going! I need a larf!

E x

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side A

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Tenses

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

 
In the first para you mix up your tenses. The night wind "blows" but the moon "hung".

Later you have

"At 10:46pm on Friday 3rd December, a random incident occur outside The Beachcomber pub."

Did you start this as all...

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Posted in Abyss

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Marvellous stuff.

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

  You have Long Cheney Jr vice Lon Chaney Jr in the paragraph beginning "A goaty, hairy chap..."

Do tell me to bog off if it's deliberate.

Enjoyed the Stones reference.

Well done.

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Posted in Cernunnos

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