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.
All three Moffat novels are available here
My stories
With Strange Feathers
It's not about birds. Image is PD
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SHOWTIME!
It's not about the theatre. Image made by me at canva.com
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4 Proof
I closed the laptop lid. The battery would run out in 15 minutes. The auto shut-down would kick in first, as it had been two pints since Vint had...
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3 Dee Time
Two bits today. Don't read them all at once... Image created at canva.com using licence free components.
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2 "And My C*ck's A Kipper"
As is customary, more seemingly (and, most likely, actually) aimless drivel. Image created by me at canva.com and 3dbookcovercreator.com
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Hi, Turlough.
Posted on Sat, 16 Oct 2021
Excellent work, it scans and the rhymes are un-forced. A great sense of place and character(s). I'm with you on your concerns about rhyme and how it can somehow infantilise (that's not quite the word I want) or undermine the seriousness of a...
Read full commentPosted in We Are Seacroft!
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Fri, 15 Oct 2021
I always love it when our writers do something a little different. If we give ourselves lines to colour inside, we lose our creative edge. This disturbing account of true events is most deservedly our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please...
Read full commentPosted in Esther Cox
This fine story is our Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Well done!
Read full commentPosted in With or Without You
Very, very funny.
Posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2021
In a cynical way, which is the best way, of course.
Can you say "held account", I think it's usually "held to account" that the people who say that sort of thing say, isn't it?
These are quite...
Read full commentPosted in The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 4
This is our Poem Of the Week for 20 August 2021
Posted on Mon, 16 Aug 2021
This sharply-observed snapshot of the hot Mediterranean summer in Naples is our Poem of the Week. Please share and/or retweet if you like it too.
Read full commentPosted in Naples: balcony overlooking Via Firenza
Duplicate posting.
Posted on Sun, 15 Aug 2021
Your poem posted twice, Luigi, unfortunately, the wrong one was deleted. Here are the comments on the one that was deleted, which, fortunately, I had saved beforehand....
Read full commentPosted in For Argument's Sake
Concur with Jack
Posted on Tue, 10 Aug 2021
It really is a good ending.
I could smell the stovies, they were the only thing my dad could cook, I did get a bit sick of them, when my mum was in hospital for six months after a brain 'incident', when I was 12.
Excellent writing,...
Read full commentPosted in Stovies
I'm shallow though
Posted on Mon, 02 Aug 2021
and the only things I remember about Fantastic Voyage are Raquel Welch and that stuff like cotton wool floating about.
Read full commentPosted in How Roger Came to Spend Lockdown on the Sofa in His Underpants
Haha...
Posted on Mon, 02 Aug 2021
Do you remember The Numskulls from The Beezer, revived in the Beano in the 90s I think? I'd grown out of comics by then. A very astute update of that, this one. Made me laugh out loud.
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in How Roger Came to Spend Lockdown on the Sofa in His Underpants
Hahahaha
Posted on Mon, 02 Aug 2021
maybe not, in answer to the narrator's last question.
Didn't think the story would end up there.
Well done.
Read full commentPosted in Focus on the lips
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