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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

Their Man in Havana

Abortive attempt at novel... may use it somewhere, in something else, who knows? Image from PD elements at canva.com
Cherry

A Son at Gretl's Bedside

No, it's not about a fairy tale. Image made at Canva.com using PD elements.
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Talent

Imagine Archie Rice compere of talent show auditions... Image made by me at canva.com

Burnt Words

Recent update concerning the following appeared in the press at the weekend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri Base image a detail from wikipedia.org. Image "composited" @canva.com
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397 of my comments have received 436 Great Feedback votes

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Congratulations, this is our Pick of the Day 28th Jun 2023

Posted on Wed, 28 Jun 2023

  An entertaining take on this weeks IP. Other ABC-ers please retweet/share do the social media thing so that others can enjoy this wryly amusing piece.

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Posted in The Jammy Tax Dodger

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Hahahaha...

Posted on Wed, 28 Jun 2023

  Very, very funny - and if it isn't all absolutely true, well it ought to be. Thanks very much for making me laugh out loud several times.

And you never wrote "Toe Jam" once.

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Posted in The Jammy Tax Dodger

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This is Today's Pick of the Day June 7th 2023

Posted on Wed, 07 Jun 2023

  Chilling, intelligent sci-fi, so that's why it's our pick of the day. Congratuations.

Could fellow ABCTalers please share/retweet/insta/whatever so this gets more reads.

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Posted in Aaron's World (second and Final part)

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Hi Ed,

Posted on Wed, 07 Jun 2023

 Although you found the image you've used on a site called freeimages.com, it is in fact a stock image owned by the big three (Alamy, Getty and Shutterstock) + a few others. Be very wary of sites claiming images are free. Royalty free does not...

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Posted in Aaron's World (second and Final part)

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This did make me laugh.

Posted on Wed, 31 May 2023

 
A clever idea, indeed.

Some of it doesn't quite scan, though. Or at least, I couldn't make it do so. Perhaps it was the way I read it out loud. I did have two or three goes.

Very funny.

Best, Ewan x

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Posted in Ladies who lunch at The Entomol

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Congratulations, this is our Pick of the Day 24th May 2023

Posted on Wed, 24 May 2023

Congratulations, this piece capturing the sense of 'wonder remembered' that is the magic of childhood is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day,

Please dear members share and/or retweet.

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Posted in Magic in a marble

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Congratulations, this is our Poem of the Week 5th May 2023

Posted on Fri, 05 May 2023

Congratulations! Well done.

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Posted in A Flower is Not a Flower

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Very nice tribute

Posted on Fri, 05 May 2023

 to an amazing musician and composer. YMO taught me to look at music differently.

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Posted in A Flower is Not a Flower

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Congratulations, this is our Story of the Week 28th April 2023

Posted on Thu, 27 Apr 2023

This three-part sci-fi piece of wishful thinking is our Story of the Week and a fitting tribute to the author's dog as well as being a good read.

Do use the links to read the first two.

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Posted in Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Three of Three)

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You have a typo at the end

Posted on Thu, 27 Apr 2023

Paul, you have there weren't vice they weren't [I think].

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Posted in Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Three of Three)

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