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

Asterisked collections ended up as published novels or short stories.

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Cherry

Pick A City

I dare you. image created at canva.com by me.
Cherry

Iconoclasts

image from pixabay
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Cherry

Over The Bones

No, you'll have to work it out yourselves. image credit Dagmar Hollmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0> , via Wikimedia Commons
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Before I Was Old

Based on a #NaPoWriMo Prompt "Start with a lie..." Had a bit of a fiddle with this. (I can count on the number of fingers of scotch in Dorothy P's tumbler how often I do that, I churn them out and leave them. Now I know why.
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447 of my comments have received 505 Great Feedback votes

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Moving

Posted on Wed, 13 May 2020

heartfelt poetry.

You have a typo in the last line. 'Liaison' looks funny, but is the correct spelling.

I enjoyed this.

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Posted in Mila

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Wish

Posted on Wed, 15 Apr 2020

I'd seen this yesterday. A bit of a sideways look itself, as I'm sure you intended.

You have a typo in para 6
"Her acquaintances or “friends” tend to have somewhat needy themselves,"

I cannot tell you...

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Posted in Crab Customs

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Builds well.

Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2020

I wonder if you could have strung (ho,ho) the reader along a little longer. Not reveal that there are no strings quite yet. No matter. I'd be interested to read part II. Some might protest that your piece is a little over-written, but I think,...

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Posted in Got No Strings - Part 1

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I'm supposed

Posted on Wed, 01 Apr 2020

to be working on Moffat III, but changes at Unbound mean that it probably won't be accepted for publication, so I've kind of lost enthusiasm for it. Moffat II No Good Deed is on the final straight before publishing in September, Covid-19...

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Posted in 43. Be Stiff

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Laughter

Posted on Wed, 19 Feb 2020

in the dark, I know, but it's still laughter. Thanks for making me laugh out loud.

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Posted in Pluto’s ode to Charon

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The beauty of

Posted on Wed, 19 Feb 2020

a classical education, recognising the names of planets' obscure moons. That suggests Boris would be quite at home, Trump perhaps would not. Although I admit both deserve to be under the Lord of the Underworld's aegis.
Anyway. I love this...

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Posted in Pluto’s ode to Charon

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Congratulations!

Posted on Tue, 04 Feb 2020

You get better and better at this kind of beautiful, bucolic poetry and that's why it is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

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Posted in Present

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Splendid

Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2019

stuff. How marvellous that Spartak Moscow is quite a villainous chap, as back in the bad old days their football team was full of soldiers who were quite villainous themselves.

I do like the bold type for certain things that would have...

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Posted in MovieLand! (A Christmas Story. Part 1)

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I voted every

Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2019

time whilst I lived in Spain until they said I couldn't. Why wouldn't I vote now? Despite what the poem says.

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Posted in We Fools

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This gorgeous piece

Posted on Tue, 08 Oct 2019

that's about soup - and contains surprises just like the catch-all soup our (grand)parents made from leftovers and whatever they grew-  is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share AND retweet if you like it too?

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Posted in This October Brings Endings

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