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I have 222 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 363479 times
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Drew Gummerson
Author of Me and Mickie James (Jonathan Cape) and The Lodger (GMP), and many stories here and there. Follow me at @drewgum. Seven Nights At The Flamingo Hotel is coming November 2020. Pre-order here https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store
My stories
The Only Way to Rob a Bank is Naked
I’m a big fan of public transport. It’s the people they let on it that bothers me. In the same way I’m a big fan of democracy. It just depends whose hands it’s in.
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My life as a frog
I was a precocious child. I went straight from Peter and Jane to Lady Windermere’s Fan. Of course I returned later to Enid Blyton but it was with a certain aesthetic detachment.
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Papa Smurf Pays A Visit
Yesterday I was sitting at my desk writing when I turned around and noticed Papa Smurf standing in the centre of the floor behind me.
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Advocat for breakfast
I need to go shopping.
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NaNoWriMo
Starting on the 1st November and running to the 30th November it is National Novel Writing Month .
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Sounds like a plan. Rock and
Posted on Fri, 13 Mar 2020
Sounds like a plan. Rock and roll will never die while you're still rocking and rolling.
Read full commentPosted in Motorway City (Rock'n'Roll will never die)
I enjoyed this. It's such a
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2020
I enjoyed this. It's such a strange situation we're in that it feels like fiction.
Read full commentPosted in Does Anyone Know If There Is A Hotline For Alien Abduction? I'd Like To Request One. We Have Lost Our Collective Minds.
Nice to see a poem about
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2020
Nice to see a poem about snooker. I love snooker. And I recommend Gordan Burns book Pocket Money.
Read full commentPosted in Snookered
Love it. Not sure about worms
Posted on Mon, 09 Mar 2020
Love it. Not sure about worms being good enough to eat tho :) Although I do remember getting that book out from the mobile library when I was a kid.... I Can Eat Worms.
Read full commentPosted in Ode to Compost
Conjures up a lovely image of
Posted on Wed, 04 Mar 2020
Conjures up a lovely image of a Spring day. Took me right there. If only....
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I'm afraid I can't speak to
Posted on Mon, 02 Mar 2020
I'm afraid I can't speak to you anymore Commodore Man. :)
Read full commentPosted in On the Spectrum
It works perfectly with the
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2020
It works perfectly with the picture.
Read full commentPosted in Waka for Murasaki Shikibu
Thank you. Enjoyed this one
Posted on Mon, 24 Feb 2020
Thank you. Enjoyed this one too.
I recommend Donjong Heights by Ben Borek, The Golden Gate by Vickram Seth or Eugene Onegin by Pushkin. They are novels in verse form.
Read full commentPosted in What was stolen?
It has an infectiousness
Posted on Mon, 24 Feb 2020
It has an infectiousness about it that will make it spread.
Read full commentPosted in Virus
Sweet story. After the title
Posted on Sun, 23 Feb 2020
Sweet story. After the title I was expecting a Highsmith type murder....
Read full commentPosted in Strangers on a Train
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