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My stories have been read 2857226 times and 1350 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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The King of Certain Subjects

I liked the marching. Although I'm not a fan of the monarchy. I do not relish the prospect of an elected head of state, we all know who would be first to throw their name in the hat. The coronation is the very epitome of "spaffing money against the wall". Other opinions are available. Image created by me at canva.com

Welcome to Hell

Almost don't remember writing this. Very long, so make a cup of tea or give up, Whichever. Image PD Oh... Nearly forgot, it's supposed to be funny.
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Ingrès’s Violin Is Out Of Tune

Rant... nothing to see here. image is derived from Lady T's flicker post and used under licence CC by-NC 2.0
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Hawthorn

Anyone know if this IS a Hawthorn?? Anyway, it's the one I can see from the window of The Writer's Den. Image photo taken this morning.
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The Picture Ranch 71

'So you don't know anything about what happened?' Eleanor G blew some smoke into the air. The sky was turning as red as her lipstick. 'No more n'you...
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389 of my comments have received 425 Great Feedback votes

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I remember liking the concept

Posted on Fri, 05 Feb 2021

of this, the found and edited manuscript trope is a belter. Tropes are good, I find the idea that they aren't very annoying. They are semiotic markers, after all.

The contrast with the old typewritten, photo-copied (and earlier still Roneo...

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Posted in The Vampire Walk- Continued

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Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021

Vivid imagery which sits well with the music which inspired it. For that reason it is our FB and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please do share and/or retweet it too, dear readers.

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Posted in Another Night On a Bare Mountain

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I discovered Mussorgsky

Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021

because of ELP. Who says rock music is for philistines?
Good poem and anything with 'flagitious' in it is alright with me.

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Posted in Another Night On a Bare Mountain

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Short and sour,

Posted on Wed, 21 Jul 2021

and also very good. I do like the spaces left for the reader to fill in.

Well done.

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Posted in Sammy's Story

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Nobody's

Posted on Fri, 16 Jul 2021

first draft is perfect.

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Posted in Disenchantment 34

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This episode,

Posted on Fri, 16 Jul 2021

chapter, or part is significantly tighter than some of the others for me. As usual the dialogue is really punchy. Sometimes, not here, but in the next part for example, you have a tendency to use a received phrase (this is what we used to call a...

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Posted in Disenchantment 34

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Tue, 06 Jul 2021

a fabulous biece of SFF that promises much, I can't wait for the next instalment. Why not share and/or retweet if you like it too, Readers?

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Posted in WebWorld (1.2)

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Splendid.

Posted on Thu, 17 Jun 2021

I like that it's coming in big chunks that need to be digested slowly. There's just the right hint of the fey in it, and it's a neat trick to have the everyday seem a little sinister.

Keep going.

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Posted in "Willow's Tail" 11

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Woody wouldn't

Posted on Wed, 02 Jun 2021

mind if you asked him, I suspect he'd laugh if I did though.

Wonderful poetry, full of depth and meaning.

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Posted in Building A Boat

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Thanks Ross,

Posted on Tue, 25 May 2021

it's best to get these memories down before they go.

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Posted in Waiting for Ijemma

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