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A/ The Ticket Collector

By Mark Burrow on Wed, 15 Sep 2004

Chap 1,2,3 / 1500 words approx

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Women Under the Influence

By Mark Burrow on Wed, 15 Sep 2004

WOMEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE Helen isn't home. I knew she'd stay until last orders but this is&;#8230;well&;#8230;it's what I expected, that's...

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Fun Time

By Mark Burrow on Wed, 15 Sep 2004

FUN TIME Andy sat on the bed in the backpacker hotel in Bangkok. His friends had flown home and he was by himself. He was drinking this awful cheap...

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Holiday Snaps

By Mark Burrow on Wed, 15 Sep 2004

HOLIDAY SNAPS The brass bell didn't used to offend Jamie Roberts. It was fun in a being-whacky-at-work kind of a way. After a couple of months, he...

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207 of my comments have received 217 Great Feedback votes

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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.

Posted in As the Walrus Said

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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...

Posted in Minnesota Fats

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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...

Posted in The Storm Of A Thousand Years

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This is spuddy great!

Posted on Tue, 07 Jul 2020

This is spuddy great!

Posted in Boiled, Deep-fried, Steamed and Mashed

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Haha! I'm intrigued by the

Posted on Tue, 07 Jul 2020

Haha! I'm intrigued by the horn, poodle and WD40. Yes, it needs more. Agreed .The challenge I set myself was to keep it at 250 words. I want to write v short pieces while trying to finish a longer piece of work. I should try another version to...

Posted in Not too Much to Ask

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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.

Posted in Shark Eye Shell

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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...

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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.