Ewan

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I have 1957 stories published in 33 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2102310 times and 1263 of my stories have been cherry picked.
355 of my 3,532 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 383 votes

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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

Cherry

BASIC : The Language of Love

What it says. Image author's own.
Cherry

With Strange Feathers

It's not about birds. Image is PD
Cherry

SHOWTIME!

It's not about the theatre. Image made by me at canva.com
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Cherry

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...
Cherry

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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355 of my comments have received 383 Great Feedback votes

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Extra big helping

Posted on Tue, 05 Dec 2023

  of your splendid diary - "eafily af good af Famuel Pepyf" Mrs Pepys.

Erm... I am probably being dim, but since прия́телка in Russian is a slightly more formal 'Gal Pal', is your lovely partner appearing pseudonymously?

NO! Don't...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - November 2023 – Second Half

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 24 Nov 2023

Posted on Thu, 23 Nov 2023

 Chilling and matter of fact at once, in a poem too!

Congratulations on being our Pick of the Day.

Please, could all readers share this on whatever SM platforms you use?

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Posted in Genius Loci

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Speaking of US/UK

Posted on Tue, 21 Nov 2023

 continuity. although Dulux is a US brand of paint too, did they ever use the Old English Sheepdog as part of their branding? The Dulux Dog was used in campaigns in AUS and NZ, but I don't think it was in the States.

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Posted in Those We Leave Behind

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Fine,

Posted on Thu, 23 Nov 2023

chewily satisfying, language. Like the best renderings of the macabre, it is very matter of fact.

You have a typo improbably vice improbable in second stanza line 9.

Good poem.

E x

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Posted in Genius Loci

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 30th October 2023

Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2023

Well done, glad to see you are carrying on with this.

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Posted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 11

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Chemo is awful,

Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2023

 but it's better than the alternative. That said, anyone who is faced with a second or third round of chemotherapy in the event of a recurrence of disease, is entitled to opt for whatever is the best for them. My wife's aunt couldn't face her...

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Posted in Chemo 2 - dose one

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 17th October 2023

Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

 This 3rd part of an ongoing piece of writing is our pick of the day.
Please retweet/post and/or share fellow ABCTalers, so it gets the audience it deserves.

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Posted in 'Parcel for you..' Part 3

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I do like this

Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

 ingenious and matter-of-fact.

I'm willing to bet by the time your narrator gets her man-bot programmed it'll be a woman. (Joking!)

Keep going

E x

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Posted in 'Parcel for you..' Part 3

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When I was much younger ...

Posted on Fri, 13 Oct 2023

watching Fireball XL5 enthused me about spaceships and science. From age 10 (John Christopher's books) to 23 or so I read swathes of Golden and Silver Age science fiction. I joined the computer club at school. I began to read about advances in...

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Posted in I'll Think About Writing

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No, I think

Posted on Thu, 12 Oct 2023

 a bit is probably fine. I don't know much, but it doesn't stop my enjoyment of it. I do feel I'm missing something, since my linguistic ability has never allowed me to learn to read music. It's the only language I've tried to learn that...

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