Ewan

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I have 1926 stories published in 31 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1878171 times and 1231 of my stories have been cherry picked.
278 of my 3,352 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 298 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.
Both Moffat novels are available here

My stories

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A Confederacy of C*ntses

Image created by me from PD elements Audio available.

A Dream in my Pocket

Throw it on the track, you don't want it back. Image created by me using canva.com with pd and wiki commons elements.
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The Woman on the Other Side of the Screen

I wish I didn't have occasion to write this. It is a companion piece to "The Man on the Other End of the Phone" Image is a screenshot
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Cherry

It Rains

Well it does rain, quite a lot. I did the image.
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Witch's Mist

Morning walk. Image author's own
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278 of my comments have received 298 Great Feedback votes

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Just done the workaround

Posted on Tue, 03 May 2022

As you saw not doing it prevented the comment box's population!

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Posted in Ingerland My Ingerland: The Prime Ministers Who Made Me

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No problem

Posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2022

with the capitalizations. Just need to be consistent throughout. You might need 'Me' at the end of stanza 4.
 

Odd, mysterious, definitely one of your poems, if read without knowing the identity of the writer.
(That's a good...

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Posted in Angelus Novus

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Tight structure

Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022

and the rhyme scheme is transparent, as all the best ones are.
 

Loved this.

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Posted in Photograph

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I agree with

Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022

the above.
Very smartly done, indeed.

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Posted in two men

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Sweet,

Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022

but not too saccharine, in the tradition of Pam Ayres perhaps.

Very good.

Ewan

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Posted in When One Is One

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"Top

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

 of the world,Ma!"

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Posted in answering machine

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

Atmospheric, beautiful and serious poetry. That's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

Please share and retweet, dear readers, if you like it too.

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Posted in The Wanderer or The Exile’s Lament

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Excellent

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

and serious poetry.
I wonder if 'god' should be capitalized? Or if you might insert 'any' before the lower-cased god?

Marvellous work.

Ewan
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Posted in The Wanderer or The Exile’s Lament

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I really enjoyed this.

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

It had nice rhythm and some good internal rhyme.

I wonder if you really need the final stanza? What does it add? It does jerk the/this reader right out of the atmosphere you have so skilfully created. \\\\

best
Ewan

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Posted in Into the Woods (Hansel and Gretel)

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Thu, 24 Mar 2022

Some may say it feels like Groundhog Day as one of these acerbic satires is POD again. Perhaps it is, but they are very funny, and goodness knows we need some laughter especially in the dark days.

Please share and retweet if you like it...

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Posted in Groundhog Boris

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