Ewan
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34 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3201207 times
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411 of my 3,697 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 454 votes
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
For Whom The Bell Tolls (The Centre Seethes)
At The Bell, summoned by the toxic tocsin of click-bait, hot-take pseudo-politics, proud under flags and banners emblazoned with broken English...
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Friendship
Short. Image is free for non-commercial use, source flicker.com
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Test
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Put Out Fewer Flags
All too obvious, no doubt, but here it is anyway.
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3 oz of Insanity
Mine weighs 3 oz +/-. I'm sure it weighs heavier on us all.
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Sun, 02 Oct 2022
A slice of history, almost 40 years ago. I was in uniform then, Air Force blue, but admired those at Faslane and Greenham. Futile in the end, but what days of innocence and belief.
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Posted in A Break in the Clouds - my Memories of living at Faslane Peace Camp back in August 1983
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2022
Succinct and vivid, this poem takes you there, and that's why it's our Pick of the Day.
Congratulations!
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Read full commentPosted in Bed and Board by The Silk Road
Love this so far,
Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022
Jack.
I do have one quibble. Ugly Puggly's last two bits of dialogue are a bit didactic. Whilst the sentiment behind the words is true, it comes over as a little authorial, even though the words come out of UP's mouth. This:
"we can'...
Read full commentPosted in Ugly Puggly 7
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Mon, 14 Mar 2022
A splendid depiction of ourselves as a parasitic blight on Gaia itself. Skilfully done and with possibly the first use of 'Agrestal' I've ever seen in a poem.
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Posted in This Cannot Be Our Home
One of the hard truths
Posted on Wed, 02 Mar 2022
is that our armed forces are not up to contributing to a coalition force at the same level as that which went to Iraq. Or indeed to Afghanistan. This is fine. Limiting defence spending to sufficient to defend the realm is sensible. Just don't...
Read full commentPosted in Listening to the News 2/3/22
Strange and evocative
Posted on Thu, 18 Nov 2021
There is great beauty in your work. Looking forward to your collection.
E x
Read full commentPosted in The Solitude of Sleep
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2021
What if, indeed. This great piece from a returning contributor is the story of the lucky escape we get most times we buy a ticket and how we overthink things.
Why not share and/or retweet if you like it too, dear readers?
Read full commentPosted in Being Careful What You Wish For
Ah yes,
Posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2021
what a double-edged sword that big win might be!
You have a typo in the penultimate stanza "op-des" vice "op-eds".
Really splendid writing, Ed.
E x
Read full commentPosted in Being Careful What You Wish For
Excellent.
Posted on Wed, 17 Mar 2021
Very fine. Whimsical, I agree.
You have a missing apostrophe at line 5 in "Willows favourite".
Always best to keep the fantastic rooted in the everyday. You do that well here.
Well done.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail"
I am
Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020
speechless. Or at least written-wordless. This bears many more than several readings.
Read full commentPosted in At The East Lake Where I'm Often Drunk, Thoroughly
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