Ewan

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I have 2025 stories published in 34 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2446364 times and 1339 of my stories have been cherry picked.
378 of my 3,621 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 411 votes

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Ewan Lawrie

The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
All three Moffat novels are available here

My stories

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I'll Think About Writing

Doggerel, might make you laugh, though. Picture is mine, so there!.
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Cherry

Music

Well I do... Image by starline free to use from freepik.com
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Poem of the week

No Fond Farewell

Another funeral. Image is mine
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Presence

Time marches on, and we stumble, trying to keep up. Image made at canva.com from author's own images.
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BASIC : The Language of Love

What it says. Image author's own.

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378 of my comments have received 411 Great Feedback votes

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"Top

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

 of the world,Ma!"

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Posted in answering machine

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

Atmospheric, beautiful and serious poetry. That's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

Please share and retweet, dear readers, if you like it too.

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Posted in The Wanderer or The Exile’s Lament

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Excellent

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

and serious poetry.
I wonder if 'god' should be capitalized? Or if you might insert 'any' before the lower-cased god?

Marvellous work.

Ewan
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Posted in The Wanderer or The Exile’s Lament

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I really enjoyed this.

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

It had nice rhythm and some good internal rhyme.

I wonder if you really need the final stanza? What does it add? It does jerk the/this reader right out of the atmosphere you have so skilfully created. \\\\

best
Ewan

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Posted in Into the Woods (Hansel and Gretel)

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Thu, 24 Mar 2022

Some may say it feels like Groundhog Day as one of these acerbic satires is POD again. Perhaps it is, but they are very funny, and goodness knows we need some laughter especially in the dark days.

Please share and retweet if you like it...

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Posted in Groundhog Boris

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Outstanding.

Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022

I can see, hear, smell and taste it all.
Very well done.
E x

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Posted in Don't Look at the Sheikh

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This is our Story of the Week for March 18th 2022

Posted on Sun, 13 Mar 2022

Congratulations on having written our Story of the Week.

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Posted in Nor There

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Another authentic slice of life

Posted on Wed, 16 Mar 2022

Jack. Para Handy with teeth. I'd like to see more too. I appreciate It can be frustrating when you're shouting into the abyss with not even an echo for an answer.

Don't give up.

Ewan

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Posted in the ten-minute bore

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Um...

Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022

In Russian, “Нет войне” is pronounced "nyet voinye": strictly speaking - and also even better - the "voinye" is the dative case of "voina" so it means "no to war"

не за что.

A very...

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Posted in Het Bonhe

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There is,

Posted on Tue, 08 Mar 2022

but there's been no-one like this since Stalin or Mao. The guy in Korea is not really a threat. At the moment the ideology is winning over the personality cult in China.
I really believe if we had negotiated the peace properly at the end of...

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Posted in We Used to Tell Ourselves

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