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I have 2021 stories published in 34 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2349329 times and 1336 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

My stories

Juke Box Jive

As simple as it gets. Image from flicker.com : CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Gold cherry

Imperfect Beauty

... and by that token, this is very beautiful indeed. Image author's own.
Cherry

Eve Still Spins

Umm... I'm sure you'll figure it out. Image is PD painting is in Carlisle Art Gallery, attributed to Italian School c.1650
Cherry

Escape Stupidity

Escape Stupidity: a bit like escape velocity, it's the minimum point of idiocy reached to need to leave the planet... Image author's own: collage made from images at canva.com
Cherry

18 Just Use the Thing

This the last, for a while anyway. I've got to do some tidying up of Mr Martinez before I publish it on 1st August. In the meantime, see if you can guess what happens to our hero in this story, let me know, because your guess is as good as mine. Image created at canva.com

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370 of my comments have received 402 Great Feedback votes

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It's a mis-quote of

Posted on Wed, 07 Aug 2024

 A cuisle mo cridh "A cushla Mac(h)ree" it sounds like more or less. It means 'Pulse of my Heart'. A term of endearment in Irish Gaelic.

I've made a name out of A cuisle do cridh "A cushla doh-c(h)ree",...

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Posted in Akushla Dockery* (Is Vic There?)

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Congratulations, this our pick of the day for 17 July 2024

Posted on Tue, 16 Jul 2024

 Well done, consistently imaginative, believable and very, very funny. That's why this is our Pick of the Day today.

Please, dear readers, share this on whatever social media you use. It's not fair to keep all of this wonderful tale to...

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 29

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Fly Agaric!

Posted on Tue, 16 Jul 2024

 Hahahahaha... let's hope Spencer never encounters the real thing... Still enjoying this very much indeed.

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 29

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 10th July 2024

Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2024

 This is our very well-deserved pick of the day. Please share and repost/tweet whatever your Social Media allows you to do in order that more people get to see this excellent work.

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Much as I love the work of Mr Zimmerman,

Posted on Tue, 09 Jul 2024

  - and I really do, for I consider Blood on the Tracks one of the best albums ever made - I doubt he ever wrote anything as unambiguous as this poem. I only wrote it* because I wanted to record it.

Thanks for reading and commenting....

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Posted in Juke Box Jive

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Not everyone finds

Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024

 their place, but I'm very glad you've found yours. Otherwise, there would be none of this acerbically-tinged whimsy to cheer me up when I read it.

умний писчий приятно и читать

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Those hellions sounded

Posted on Tue, 11 Jun 2024

 very reasonable sorts to me... Really very good indeed. Well done!

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Posted in Peter's Soul

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I always vote as a matter of course

Posted on Fri, 24 May 2024

  because I feel I have no right to complain if I don't. I even voted for 10 of the 15 years I lived in Spain, which was all that was permitted.
Proportional Representation is not inevitable, but it should be.

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Posted in Empty M_______o

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There is nothing

Posted on Mon, 15 Apr 2024

 anyone but the people of the nation making that claim can do regarding their country's attitude to the war in Ukraine.

What surprises me is that the 'Base' seem unaware that the right wing is very strong in Ukraine, I expect Trump is...

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Posted in Perhaps

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Exactly so.

Posted on Mon, 15 Apr 2024

  Israel needs the goodwill of - for want of another term - the West: Netanyahu is obliterating that as surely as his bombs are the buildings of Gaza. The Islamic Republic of Iran knows that their drones and missiles will have no effect at all,...

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