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My stories have been read 3316548 times and 1377 of my stories have been cherry picked.
408 of my 3,578 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 450 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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6 "You'll Hear My Voice, On the Wind, 'Cross the Sand"

1000 words in total today. A long time since I've done that. Anyway, here is more of this. And I hope you've all been ear-wormed by the time you get to the end...
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5 Smokin'

This might be the next one off the production line, I'll let you know. Image made at Canva.com The first 2000 words are here https://www.abctales.com/collection/prospero-vint

Who Is Your Robin Hood?

Nonsense, don't click on this. Image made by author at Canva.com
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Poem of the week

Empty M_______o

Well, I'm sure you'll work it out. Image made at canva from PD elephants.
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Andalucian Sunrise

It was good sometimes... Image source is flicker.com no known copyright issues.
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408 of my comments have received 450 Great Feedback votes

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Congratulations! This is Today's Pick of the Day July 12th 2023

Posted on Wed, 12 Jul 2023

 Strong narrative and imagery in this fine poem takes us along on the guided tour of the eponymous castle, that's why it's today's Pick of the Day.

Please spread the word on whatever is your social medium of choice, dear ABC-ers.

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Posted in Castell Coch (Red Castle)

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I wonder if it is a corruption of another word,

Posted on Wed, 12 Jul 2023

 that often happens over time. A candidate might be Cloch, which means bell, I believe. However, historians and archaelogists will have pored over such possibilities for years.

I only point it out, because - as you may very well know -...

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Posted in Castell Coch (Red Castle)

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Congratulations, this is our Story of the Week 7th July 2023

Posted on Wed, 05 Jul 2023

  Well done, this and the other three parts are jointly awarded Story of the Week.

Please share on social media, readers, if you can.

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Posted in Miss Australia 1978 – Part One of Four

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Make

Posted on Fri, 07 Jul 2023

 some jam...

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Posted in Miss Australia 1978 – Part Four of Four

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BTW

Posted on Fri, 07 Jul 2023

 Loving the photographs. How great to still have them all.

Excellent.

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Posted in Miss Australia 1978 – Part Three of Four

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Fabulous

Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2023

  only people who don't write are unaware of how difficult it is to be funny in writing.

Excellent.

Keep going.

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Posted in Miss Australia 1978 – Part Two of Four

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My brother took your

Posted on Wed, 05 Jul 2023

 route into a sea-faring life. South Shields Marine College Navigational Officer cadet starting in 1972 and then did 35 years at sea with the same shipping company. Out of the real Newcastle, the old Newcastle, rather than the new New South Wales...

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Posted in Miss Australia 1978 – Part One of Four

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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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