Mark Burrow

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I have 88 stories published in 4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 252425 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

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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

Cherry

B/ The Ticket Collector

Ch 4, 5, 6 (2000 words)
Cherry

A/ The Ticket Collector

Chap 1,2,3 / 1500 words approx
Cherry

Women Under the Influence

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...
Cherry

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...
Cherry

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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207 of my comments have received 217 Great Feedback votes

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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. 

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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...

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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...

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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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Posted in Boiled, Deep-fried, Steamed and Mashed

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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...

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Posted in Not too Much to Ask

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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. 

 

 

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Posted in Shark Eye Shell

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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...

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Posted in You Wouldn't Call It An Earthquake Exactly

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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.  

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Posted in How To Be Authentic

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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...

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Posted in Flamingo Dreams

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I always think of ghosts as

Posted on Fri, 08 May 2020

I always think of ghosts as our most powerful memories.

Lovely poem. 

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Posted in All the lost places

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