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
 

My stories

Cherry

Dolls &; Holes

(2151 Words)
Cherry

You Say So

2000 words
Cherry

G/ The Ticket Collector

ch 19 (3200 words)

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205 of my comments have received 216 Great Feedback votes

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Underneath the polite,

Posted on Sun, 06 Dec 2020

Underneath the polite, measured reflections, there’s something deliciously weird and off-kilter going on in this story, which is why it is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please share!  

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Posted in Friendship

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Beautufully done. 

Posted on Mon, 07 Dec 2020

Beautifully done. 

And I want one for Christmas. 

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Posted in Darwin’s Creatures

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Haha! I really am!   

Posted on Sun, 06 Dec 2020

Haha! I really am! 

 

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Posted in Friendship

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No problem, Grace. Good to

Posted on Fri, 04 Dec 2020

No problem, Grace. Good to have some nice plans for a happier year ahead! 

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Posted in The Three Gardens. Part Five.

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Sounds like a very nice plan.

Posted on Fri, 04 Dec 2020

Sounds like a very nice plan. 

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Posted in The Three Gardens. Part Five.

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This has the feeling of a Tom

Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020

This has the feeling of a Tom Waits song. The unevenly labelled Tsingtao is a brilliant detail. I want to steal that. 

Nice work. 

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Posted in At The East Lake Where I'm Often Drunk, Thoroughly

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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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Posted in Screech

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Really impressive, Mark --

Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2020

Really impressive, Mark -- well done. 

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Posted in Brewster's Way 4

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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. 

 

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Posted in The Death of a Star

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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. 

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Posted in The Death of a Star

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