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I have 2053 stories published in 34 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3298707 times and 1377 of my stories have been cherry picked.
417 of my 3,705 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 460 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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11 "I Just Don't Like Hastings"

No disparagement of Hastings intended. It's a character's words, not mine. Image from Flicker.com licence CC BY-NC 2.0
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10 Off at Nine

More of this, I'm afraid. BTW, I haven't used Windows for years. Not since Windows 2000. If only the image were bigger. Anyway, it's the name of the pub mentioned... Which no more exists than, well, that tree falling in the wood.
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9 Room 13

Room 13 Unlucky - or maybe lucky - for some. That's it for the week, maybe more on Monday. Image made at canva.com.
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8 That's Veterans for You

And some more... None of the characters are real, but some of the things they say and do have been done... By someone. Write what you know, eh? Image made at canva.com
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7 Cod Dickensian Crap

'More?' Be careful what you wish for. "Ah luv metafiction Ah do" Overheard something as unlikely as that in a pub once. This one's for whoever it was... Book cover image created ad canva. Book mockups at diybookcovers.com
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417 of my comments have received 460 Great Feedback votes

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Terrific.

Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2023

  Not to say beautiful.
Well done.

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Posted in You Never Said

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Really evocative.

Posted on Thu, 31 Aug 2023

  I had no idea where Rejerrah was, but I saw Morocco or Algiers in my mind's eye.
After looking it up, I see you have conjured a great sense of place - and the fault is in my Geography, not in your poem.

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Posted in The Hawk at Rejerrah

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Congratulations! This is today's Pick of the Day 4th Aug 2023

Posted on Fri, 04 Aug 2023

  Well done, this is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day, well done.

Please share on social media, all readers.

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Posted in A Slow Cooked Life

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Good use of the IP...

Posted on Fri, 04 Aug 2023

 I agree.

You have a typo at line 5 "neve" vice "never".

I wonder if "lay" in your third stanza might be better as "lie". Of course, if you're trying to indicate that - perhaps - the unknown...

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Posted in A Slow Cooked Life

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This is our Poem of the Week Aug 4th 2023

Posted on Wed, 02 Aug 2023

  Congratulations, this is our Poem of the Week.

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Posted in Under Late Spring Sky

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Just like

Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2023

 3 Mustapha 3, only smashed on rakia...

https://youtu.be/wvf52QQwjmo

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Posted in Rakia Maria – Part Two of Two

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This is Today's Pick of the Day July 26th 2023

Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2023

  Congratulations! This is today's Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

This laugh-out-loud description of Anglo-Bulgarian social interaction is a hoot.

Please share and/or retweet, thread, mastadon, whatever this ABC-Talers.

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Posted in Rakia Maria – Part Two of Two

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"I did what I did for Maria."

Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2023

  and doubtless you did it with no fee-ar.

You always cheer me up no end.

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Posted in Rakia Maria – Part Two of Two

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This is Today's Pick of the Day July 19th 2023

Posted on Mon, 17 Jul 2023

 Congratulations, this is our Pick of the Day, today.

Please share/retweet/threadify/whatever it is you do in the way of social media, dear ABC-ers.

Well done, Paul.

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Posted in Dragon Gate

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I love rivers

Posted on Fri, 14 Jul 2023

We really should look after them better than we do, and show them the respect that they are due. All true beauty is dangerous too.

(Can't believe that rhymes, it WAS an accident, but I'll leave it anyway).

Thanks for reading and...

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Posted in Don't Blame The River

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