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.
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79. The Turn Of A Friendly Card
You played poker with who??? Image author's own.
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78. Mission Statement
Don't you hate them? When have they ever convinced anyone? Image by Bryan Zug: Words by Patrick Lencioni : Licence CC BY SA2.0 : Source: flickr.com https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4
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77. Time and the Devil
"...gonna bring me ev'rythin' Ah need." Image free for non-commercial use source pixabay.com
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Crooked Timber
It's about the same thing as the last one was about... image by Jason Swadley. Source Flicker.com . Licence CC BY 2.0
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'Ach Well...'
ambivalence, there's a lot of it on both sides... Image source wiki commons. Licence CC-SA 3.0 Photographer Gil Cavalcanti
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What
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2017
a pleasure it was to have known a little about your father's father in your father's own words. There is so little to connect us goyim with the terrible things done in those dark days. Every time a survivor goes, another thread is severed....
Read full commentPosted in Shlamek
I read quite a few
Posted on Fri, 21 Jul 2017
eye-witness accounts of the evacuation. One of them had this:
Read full comment"the angry hornet noise of dive bombers." So I do not take all the credit for that turn of phrase.
Many of these eye-witness reports were full of such observations, very...
Posted in No Armada
Most enjoyable.
Posted on Mon, 17 Jul 2017
Very descriptive, some nice alliteration and imagery. I particularly liked your neologism, 'coolcurled'.
You have a typo, lizard has one 'Z'.
Do you really need to put 'ivy' at the end? A suitable accompanying...
Read full commentPosted in a sort of green
Ah, see, classic imposter
Posted on Sun, 16 Jul 2017
Ah, see, classic imposter syndrome behaviour, denying one's achievements!
Read full comment;-)
Posted in Another one of those
Really liked this.
Posted on Thu, 13 Jul 2017
You might want to think about the "I"'s lining the page like telegraph poles. It often happens with a first person narrator, I've done it myself. Once it's pointed out you always see it.
Utterly, utterly believable. I hope it's fiction,...
Read full commentPosted in What happens near Rome
This is really good.
Posted on Fri, 30 Jun 2017
The voice as has been mentioned is really good. I like how much subtext there is. How much we're left to fill in for ourselves about your narrator.
Read full commentA couple of tiny things. Plural of taxi is taxis, there is an archaic form taxies, but it's...
Posted in Earth. Live. Neutral.
This rich
Posted on Sun, 18 Jun 2017
and textured riot of colour and blooms reminded me of Christina Rossetti's work. It is a deserved Facebook/Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet if you like it too_
Read full commentPosted in The Ghost Queen.
terrific stuff...
Posted on Thu, 08 Jun 2017
As good on the ins and outs of the Basketball dream as Harlan Coben (it's a compliment)
best
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in Hello Walls (Chapter Four)
Two
Posted on Wed, 07 Jun 2017
Typos, it's Gauguin!
Read full commentPosted in Listed
Did
Posted on Sat, 27 May 2017
I tell you how much I like this? There is satire, menace, allegory, myth and fable, also some tight writing anyone would be proud to have written. It takes genuine talent to get all that stuff in a piece of writing without bashing people over the...
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