Mark Burrow
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I have 90 stories published in
4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 211056 times
and 230 of my stories have been cherry picked.
205 of my 1,142 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 216 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
Fun Time
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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- 750 reads
Holiday Snaps
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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- 768 reads
Mud Pie's Revenge
MUD PIE'S REVENGE Joshua Preece unbuttoned his Agnes B shirt and dropped it onto the tiled bathroom floor. He looked at his white fat stomach. He...
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- 1110 reads
In My Local
IN MY LOCAL She's cracking up. She thinks he's a comedian. All this evening was supposed to be was a quiet drink in the pub. The two of us. And then...
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- 776 reads
Staff Meal
STAFF MEAL Phillip Crane clicked the right mouse button and cut &; pasted numbers from cell C4 to F4. His colleague, Sue, a credit controller,...
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- 824 reads
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
It's fantastic news, Drew,
Posted on Sat, 09 May 2020
It's fantastic news, Drew, and well deserved. What I enjoyed the most about Flamingo is the energy and that it didn't sound like anyone else. It reminded me of other writers I admire but you have your own style and craft and that'll see you...
Read full commentPosted in Flamingo Dreams
I always think of ghosts as
Posted on Fri, 08 May 2020
I always think of ghosts as our most powerful memories.
Lovely poem.
Read full commentPosted in All the lost places
This caught some of the
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2019
This caught some of the feelings I've had but never thought to put into words.
Really liked this: we darted the portrait galleries / of these fragments of lives / chipped into stone.
Superb.
Read full commentPosted in Graveyards
Enjoyed this -- lyrical and
Posted on Sat, 26 Oct 2019
Enjoyed this -- lyrical and strangely fierce at the same time.
Read full commentPosted in Wood Anemones
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