Mark Burrow
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Stories. Flash. Works in progress.
My novella, Coo, is published by Alien Buddha Press and can be found here http://tinyurl.com/CooMarkBurrow
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, I get that after For All
Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2020
Yes, I get that after For All We Know you might want a break (which is fantastic by the way). I also think story cycles are deceptively hard to do – I spent ages on a book about an estate but I couldn’t get it right. It was horrific.
I...
Read full commentPosted in Ellis In The Arms
I could see this like a film
Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2020
I could see this like a film short. Superb. Have you ever read Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson? It's worth a read. You could create characters in a town set in Ireland in the same way.
Anyway, this made me laugh out loud. Cracking.
Read full commentPosted in Ellis In The Arms
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...
Read full commentPosted in Minnesota Fats
Excellent. This was my
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2020
Excellent. This was my favourite part:
Right there in the middle of the city, a field.
Noodle stalls watch suspiciously as we move
Through the chicken fog, spitting pans, and away
To a field of wet grass and...
Read full commentPosted in The Storm Of A Thousand Years
This is spuddy great!
Posted on Tue, 07 Jul 2020
This is spuddy great!
Read full commentPosted in Boiled, Deep-fried, Steamed and Mashed
Wistful is the word. It has
Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020
Wistful is the word. It has this sense of memories ebbing and flowing. "We can make-believe it's Sunday, when the silence is only the pause before we begin again..." Superb.
Read full commentPosted in Shark Eye Shell
I love how the imagery and
Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2020
I love how the imagery and dialogue are interlaced. The cloud imagery against the shop works really well together. You build a mood of lives changing in mundane moments, especially in the exchange where the guy says, "Shur I’ve me whole life...
Read full commentPosted in You Wouldn't Call It An Earthquake Exactly
I liked how this immediately
Posted on Sat, 23 May 2020
I liked how this immediately carried me along. It's hard to do so hats off. Some cracking turns of phrase too - "the cold flannel of facts". I might have to use that!
Thanks for posting this.
Read full commentPosted in How To Be Authentic
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