Mark Burrow
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I have 88 stories published in
4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 252390 times
and 233 of my stories have been cherry picked.
207 of my 1,150 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 217 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
Are You sure you're okay?
2791 words
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- 983 reads
G/ The Ticket Collector
ch 19 (3200 words)
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- 758 reads
F/ The Ticket Collector
Ch / 16, 17, 18,
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- 853 reads
E/ The Ticket Collector
ch 13, 14, 15 (2000 words)
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- 726 reads
This has the feeling of a Tom
Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020
This has the feeling of a Tom Waits song. The unevenly labelled Tsingtao is a brilliant detail. I want to steal that.
Nice work.
Read full commentPosted in At The East Lake Where I'm Often Drunk, Thoroughly
Really admire how you blend
Posted on Mon, 02 Nov 2020
Really admire how you blend the imagery of animals with the impermanence of consciousness.
Read full commentPosted in Screech
Really impressive, Mark --
Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2020
Really impressive, Mark -- well done.
Read full commentPosted in Brewster's Way 4
No worries -- I think it
Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2020
No worries -- I think it conveys this idea of there being a kind of beauty in how existence and suffering are intertwined. However, that could just be my mindset on a Monday morning before a 3-hour meeting.
Read full commentPosted in The Death of a Star
Really enjoyed the elemental
Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2020
Really enjoyed the elemental feel of this.
I genuinely don't know how you keep control of that final stanza, but it's seriously impressive -- it reads like a wave, if that makes sense (probably not!). Anyway, nice one.
Read full commentPosted in The Death of a Star
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.
Read full commentPosted in Brewster's Way 1
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!
Read full commentPosted in Peace In The Forest
Mission accomplished. This
Posted on Fri, 21 Aug 2020
Mission accomplished. This has made me want to rewatch Wild Strawberries.
Read full commentPosted in Bibi Andersson
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...
Read full commentPosted in Ellis In The Arms
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.
Read full commentPosted in Ellis In The Arms
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