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My stories have been read 3553431 times and 1388 of my stories have been cherry picked.
428 of my 3,618 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 474 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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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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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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428 of my comments have received 474 Great Feedback votes

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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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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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