Ewan
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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
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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The Esoteric Few
Whom Byron claimed one of his poems was written for. Not this one, because it's mine, but it's still for the esoteric few. Image author's own
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No-one Found
Nowadays we need closure. In the past, it might have been a long and lingering grief, we have forgotten what it is like not to know, which must make it even harder to bear. Image is PD, YAY!
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wOr d S
what it s a ys Image created by author at canva.com
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Let's Dance
Go on, let's image source: James Vaughan, flicker.com Image Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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Excellent
Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022
and serious poetry.
I wonder if 'god' should be capitalized? Or if you might insert 'any' before the lower-cased god?
Marvellous work.
Ewan
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Posted in The Wanderer or The Exile’s Lament
I really enjoyed this.
Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022
It had nice rhythm and some good internal rhyme.
I wonder if you really need the final stanza? What does it add? It does jerk the/this reader right out of the atmosphere you have so skilfully created. \\\\
best
Read full commentEwan
Posted in Into the Woods (Hansel and Gretel)
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Thu, 24 Mar 2022
Some may say it feels like Groundhog Day as one of these acerbic satires is POD again. Perhaps it is, but they are very funny, and goodness knows we need some laughter especially in the dark days.
Please share and retweet if you like it...
Read full commentPosted in Groundhog Boris
Outstanding.
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
I can see, hear, smell and taste it all.
Read full commentVery well done.
E x
Posted in Don't Look at the Sheikh
This is our Story of the Week for March 18th 2022
Posted on Sun, 13 Mar 2022
Congratulations on having written our Story of the Week.
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Read full commentPosted in Nor There
Another authentic slice of life
Posted on Wed, 16 Mar 2022
Jack. Para Handy with teeth. I'd like to see more too. I appreciate It can be frustrating when you're shouting into the abyss with not even an echo for an answer.
Don't give up.
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in the ten-minute bore
Um...
Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022
In Russian, “Нет войне” is pronounced "nyet voinye": strictly speaking - and also even better - the "voinye" is the dative case of "voina" so it means "no to war"
не за что.
A very...
Read full commentPosted in Het Bonhe
There is,
Posted on Tue, 08 Mar 2022
but there's been no-one like this since Stalin or Mao. The guy in Korea is not really a threat. At the moment the ideology is winning over the personality cult in China.
Read full commentI really believe if we had negotiated the peace properly at the end of...
Posted in We Used to Tell Ourselves
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Thu, 24 Feb 2022
Taut, not a superfluous word. Timely and true. Please share and retweet if you like it too.
Read full commentPosted in Firepower
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Thu, 17 Feb 2022
Great stuff, layered and fun. Well done.
Why not share and retweet, dear readers if you like it too?
Read full commentPosted in Mercury with an Elvis Lip
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