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I have 1973 stories published in 34 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2122158 times and 1280 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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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And We Move On

How it is. Image by storyset on freepik
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Godot's Ghost

I've read Waiting for Godot about half-a-dozen times and seen it twice on stage many years ago. I can never make up my mind if Godot is God or death, or if Estragon and Vladimir are in Hell or Purgatory or in a care home near Clacton-on-Sea. Anyway, this isn't really about Didi and Gogo. [Image from PXhere.com]
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A Vicious Circle

When did centrism become such a bad thing? Why? Image is PD from PD Vectors.

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Don't Ask

So many people in the Armed Forces back in the day - before don't ask don't tell - were living a lie. I'm glad most of them are still friends.

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357 of my comments have received 385 Great Feedback votes

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Thanks

Posted on Tue, 03 May 2022

for your patience, Mark.

Ewan

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Posted in Ingerland My Ingerland: The Prime Ministers Who Made Me

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You have to

Posted on Tue, 03 May 2022

Tick the box every time you log in. I thought that might be the case. Sigh! Nothing's ever easy, is it? Glad you got to post your piece.

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Posted in Ingerland My Ingerland: The Prime Ministers Who Made Me

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Just done the workaround

Posted on Tue, 03 May 2022

As you saw not doing it prevented the comment box's population!

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Posted in Ingerland My Ingerland: The Prime Ministers Who Made Me

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No problem

Posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2022

with the capitalizations. Just need to be consistent throughout. You might need 'Me' at the end of stanza 4.
 

Odd, mysterious, definitely one of your poems, if read without knowing the identity of the writer.
(That's a good...

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Posted in Angelus Novus

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Tight structure

Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022

and the rhyme scheme is transparent, as all the best ones are.
 

Loved this.

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Posted in Photograph

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I agree with

Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022

the above.
Very smartly done, indeed.

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Posted in two men

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Sweet,

Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022

but not too saccharine, in the tradition of Pam Ayres perhaps.

Very good.

Ewan

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Posted in When One Is One

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I do like

Posted on Wed, 13 Apr 2022

things which seem to be about nothing, but aren't.

Worth the reading for

"anecdotes which develop arms and legs with the passage of time."

alone. Very meta too, something else in its favour,...

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Posted in We Are Only Riders

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"Top

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

 of the world,Ma!"

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Posted in answering machine

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

Atmospheric, beautiful and serious poetry. That's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

Please share and retweet, dear readers, if you like it too.

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Posted in The Wanderer or The Exile’s Lament

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