Mark Burrow

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E/ The Ticket Collector

By Mark Burrow on Wed, 15 Sep 2004

ch 13, 14, 15 (2000 words)

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B/ The Ticket Collector

By Mark Burrow on Wed, 15 Sep 2004

Ch 4, 5, 6 (2000 words)

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Certificate 15

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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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205 of my comments have received 216 Great Feedback votes

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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.

Posted in Brewster's Way 1

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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!

Posted in Peace In The Forest

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Mission accomplished. This

Posted on Fri, 21 Aug 2020

Mission accomplished. This has made me want to rewatch Wild Strawberries.

Posted in Bibi Andersson

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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...

Posted in Ellis In The Arms

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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.

Posted in Ellis In The Arms

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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!

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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...