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I have 2034 stories published in 34 collections on the site.
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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 XXXI (It's Just Lazy, Isn't It?)

There really isn't any point in starting here. You really need to start at the beginning, which you COULD find via a link at the end of this one. Yes, you could begin at the end... image is PD from OpenClipArt.com ... But I drew on it.
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And We Move On

How it is. Image by storyset on freepik
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Godot's Ghost

I've read Waiting for Godot about half-a-dozen times and seen it twice on stage many years ago. I can never make up my mind if Godot is God or death, or if Estragon and Vladimir are in Hell or Purgatory or in a care home near Clacton-on-Sea. Anyway, this isn't really about Didi and Gogo. [Image from PXhere.com]
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A Vicious Circle

When did centrism become such a bad thing? Why? Image is PD from PD Vectors.

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389 of my comments have received 425 Great Feedback votes

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One theory

Posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2020

is that Ashurbanipal was Sardanapalus (and transliteration can do funny things, especially from cuneiform into Greek and later Latin script) BUT Ashurbanipal is everywhere else but in Cteisis's version - which itself is only known through...

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Posted in Historiography

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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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