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.
My stories
The Low Men
Well, I am... Image has been released into the public domain by George Hodan (publicdomainpictures.net)
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"___"
That's got you thinking... sorry if you're disappointed.
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Nick Goes Phishing
Flash Fiction. Image is out of copyright and in the public domain, as Haitzman drew it up in 1669.
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The Wisest Fool in Washing Town
What it says... image is by rept0n1x source: wikipedia commons. Used under:- Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
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It's fairly recent
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
from a US radio advertising campaign from the 30's I think. It means this is going/has started well - possibly after repeated failed attempts. Popularised by Jack Benny and the like in comedy sketches thereafter.
Read full commentPosted in Cooking On Gas
This
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2019
topical piece captures the futility of getting away from it all, whatever "it" is, it's in our baggage and that's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
Read full commentPosted in removed for submission
Most enjoyable.
Posted on Thu, 07 Feb 2019
One or two things. Incognito is one word.
Kirk is almost exclusively used for Church in the Church of Scotland. Your priest(s) are Catholics, I presume, since they practise the rite of Exorcism.
I like the idea of the stories being...
Read full commentPosted in Adam Maxwell -Farquhar (Tale 2- Work in Progress)
I wonder
Posted on Thu, 31 Jan 2019
what the playground chants are now... we used to parrot chants about Ho Chi Minh, with no clue where Vietnam was. This has that kind of hypnotic rhythm. Cleverly done.
best
Read full commentEwan
Posted in Don't count your chickens
This splendid poem
Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2019
is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet if you like it too.
Read full commentImage is copyright Dave Bevis source is https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3381711 and it is...
Posted in Thanks in part to Louis M and William W: another love poem
Nice
Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2019
to see a dialect word in a poem (jitty) if we don't use them they'll die out. For those of a Yorkshire persuasion it's a ginnel, and if you're Jockinese (like me), it's a close.
Beautifully done.
best
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Posted in Thanks in part to Louis M and William W: another love poem
Lots to Enjoy
Posted on Fri, 21 Dec 2018
in this deceptively simple poem. I wonder if wouldn't work better without the first line? You show us all of that in the rest of the poem.
This is particularly beautiful
I turn once more to the laundry.
Read full commentIt is evening now...
Posted in love and laundry
It's worrying
Posted on Tue, 17 Jul 2018
looking back, sometimes. Old pals who took apprenticeships at 16 haven't lifted a tool in 30 years. Policemen some of them, or RAC men. The lucky few might do some shop-fitting though they're time-served carpenters and joiners. One lathe-turner...
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It's funny
Posted on Thu, 07 Jun 2018
if you'd asked me 10 years ago about the cathartic benefits of writing, I'd have laughed in your face. How wrong can one be? I suppose the point is it enables you (me, one etc.) to take your feelings outside and examine them, turning them over to...
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This
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day, it is a skilful two-parter which really drew this reader in.
Please read part two...
Read full commentPosted in Something Hard Inside Him (Part 1)
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