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I have 1974 stories published in 34 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2130677 times and 1281 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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Bronte's Inferno XVIII (I Was Thirsty)

More of this? Afraid so. Image source flicker.com : licence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Bronte's Inferno XVII (Probably In His Underpants)

More of this? Afraid so. Image is free to use from clipart library.
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Bronte's Inferno XVI (All The Terrible Books)

Remember this? Hoping to get a novella out of it. Image made by me at canva.com. People component from clipart.com, free for non-commercial use.
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Tom's Swiss Cure

No clues, I'm afraid, except the image. If you do figure it out, you might say to yourself "how dare he?" And I would not argue with that. Image from Wiki commons.
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357 of my comments have received 385 Great Feedback votes

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Perhaps your

Posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2020

next collection could contain a whole aviary? Another fine poem.
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Posted in Hoopoe

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Hahaha

Posted on Sun, 15 Nov 2020

If only it weren't all so nearly true!
Well done.

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Posted in Invisible

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Your poem

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2020

reminded me of a visit to the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore one day, over 40 years ago.

Monsoon season, I remember it well. Half the broadsheet back page of the Straits Times would be dedicated to forecasts attempting to predict at what...

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Posted in Monsoon

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Some

Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020

striking imagery here.

Do you mean "algæ-d" at line 8?

Your poem finishes very strongly with these lines.

"the sun’s departure 

under the horizon’s guillotine,

 

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Posted in Retirement options for tube trains, #7, Foulness Island

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I think

Posted on Wed, 28 Oct 2020

this has touches of MR James about it: something off, glimpsed out of the corner of your eye. Bags of atmosphere, you have a sure touch when generating a sense of place.

Sound.

Ewan x

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Posted in Of An Outhouse In Autumn (2)

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If

Posted on Tue, 20 Oct 2020

books COULD talk 'though, eh?

I loved this Sean. It made me laugh and when it's dark those who make us laugh loudest are the best writers of all. 

Ewan

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Posted in Wesley Tickle's 20th Century Bookstore

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Weird

Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2020

is good. And that's all I have to say.

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Posted in The Walrus and the Pearl

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Atmospheric

Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2020

eerie, too. I love the idea of a mourning fog and what it might be mourning.

Ewan x

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Posted in House Ghost

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I reckon

Posted on Thu, 01 Oct 2020

the lightning bird will be out and about today.

This is terrific poetry.

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Posted in Hamerkop

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White noise

Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2020

is played very loud as an "interrogation" technique by most intelligence agencies. That's the point , government people know about Rueda's phone. It's easy enough to keep track of a mobile, even if it's switched off. Teniente Elizondo doesn't...

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Posted in "Señor Bean" [Mr Martínez: Eleven]

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