Mark Burrow
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I have 103 stories published in
4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 156424 times
and 199 of my stories have been cherry picked.
168 of my 958 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 177 votes
Stories. Flash. Works in progress.
My novella, Coo, is published by Alien Buddha Press and can be found here http://tinyurl.com/CooMarkBurrow
My stories
Tinder – Ch 3 – Dee
My younger brother Mike has a terrific sense of humour. He has this infectious laugh that cracks people up.
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Tinder – Part 2 – Terry
For the past couple of weeks I had been on at Deirdre to let me have a go. ‘That’s one way traffic,’ she’d say, cackling like a hyena.
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Tinder
Every kid likes to start a fire. For Christian Cumberbatch, fires went beyond a bit of fun.
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Waiting for this
Alan pressed the buzzer. A young girl answered. He liked what greeted him. Short skirt. A tee-shirt showing a firm and sizeable pair - very tidy, he thought, stepping by as she closed the door.
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You say one thing
As I lay here now, thinking about that night, I wonder about myself. How I let what happened happen.
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Really admire how you blend
Posted on Mon, 02 Nov 2020
Really admire how you blend the imagery of animals with the impermanence of consciousness.
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Really impressive, Mark --
Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2020
Really impressive, Mark -- well done.
Read full commentPosted in Brewster's Way 4
No worries -- I think it
Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2020
No worries -- I think it conveys this idea of there being a kind of beauty in how existence and suffering are intertwined. However, that could just be my mindset on a Monday morning before a 3-hour meeting.
Read full commentPosted in The Death of a Star
Really enjoyed the elemental
Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2020
Really enjoyed the elemental feel of this.
I genuinely don't know how you keep control of that final stanza, but it's seriously impressive -- it reads like a wave, if that makes sense (probably not!). Anyway, nice one.
Read full commentPosted in The Death of a Star
Haha! Don't be daft - I like
Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2020
Haha! Don't be daft - I like the film recommendations. I'm just about to watch Tarkovsky's Solaris this evening.
I will check it out.
Read full commentPosted in Assassin in My Village Supermarket
This made me laugh -- Mickey
Posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2020
This made me laugh -- Mickey reminds me of a lot of seasoned hacks I used to work with.
Good stuff.
Read full commentPosted in Brewster's Way 1
Really well-captured and
Posted on Wed, 02 Sep 2020
Really well-captured and evocative poem. Where I'm living at the mo actually backs onto this forest -- I'd say you nailed it!
Read full commentPosted in Peace In The Forest
Mission accomplished. This
Posted on Fri, 21 Aug 2020
Mission accomplished. This has made me want to rewatch Wild Strawberries.
Read full commentPosted in Bibi Andersson
Yes, you've hit the nail on
Posted on Mon, 03 Aug 2020
Yes, you've hit the nail on the head with this Luigi. I sometimes think this vile pandemic is just a little taster of what's to come if we don't act soon.
Read full commentPosted in As the Walrus Said
The style of this feels
Posted on Fri, 31 Jul 2020
The style of this feels different. Love how the voice carries you along -- the ending didn't quite land for me, though (I think it's the mass depondency paragraph).
However, this did remind me an episode of Kilroy, where a bloke from...
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