Mark Burrow

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I have 88 stories published in 4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 272757 times and 233 of my stories have been cherry picked.
207 of my 1,153 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
 

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All Architects Are Called Zach (Part 2, words, 1,756)

The sun was bleeding. A boy and girl were sitting in the stairwell of the flats, whispering together. They were the only people he had seen since being refused entry to the last pub.
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All Architects Are Called Zach (Part 1, words 1,838)

Freddy walked into his local. The door hadn’t swung shut behind him when he clocked the heads angling in his direction.
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Pan Out

It was a Friday night. I stood in the kitchen, thinking about a drink. I had been off booze for six weeks. Quitting was not easy. I had wanted to go...
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Tina

I caught this boy, Dan, gawping at my ankle chain in a maths class once… I was like, “Oi, Noncy Nonce, stop perving at me.” Everyone was cracking up...
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The Riots

The news showed footage of shop windows being smashed. Cars tipped on their sides and set alight. Rioters lobbed stones and bottles at the police. A...

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207 of my comments have received 217 Great Feedback votes

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Nicely done. Has a Leonard

Posted on Sat, 04 Feb 2023

Nicely done. Has a Leonard Cohen, Songs of Love and Hate, feel about it.

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Posted in The Wheel in the Cave

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Really enjoyed this. Good

Posted on Mon, 30 Jan 2023

Really enjoyed this. Good stuff. 

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Posted in The Dream Tax

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A moving story that I'm sure

Posted on Sun, 08 Jan 2023

A moving story that I'm sure will strike a chord with many people who read it. Nicely done, too. 

I love the detail of the TV flickering whenever a text message was sent. 

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Posted in Time solves everything

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Nice to read more of these,

Posted on Thu, 05 Jan 2023

Nice to read more of these, Sean. Great stuff. 

I remember the film and everyone reading Danny Sugarman's, No One Here Gets Out Alive. Lots of wannabe Morrisons strutting around in my college in Putney. I was one of them. I bought a...

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Posted in The D's in French

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After spending what felt like

Posted on Fri, 30 Dec 2022

After spending what felt like three hours drying the dogs today, I'm looking forward to "sunlight hot".

Enjoyed this. Had a rhythm to it,

'Frizzling' is a great word.  

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Posted in Light-Cycle

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Has an imagist feel about it.

Posted on Wed, 14 Dec 2022

Has an imagist feel about it. Nicely done, as ever. 

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Posted in Mid-Winter

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Btw -- I don't think anyone

Posted on Fri, 30 Sep 2022

Btw -- I don't think anyone can "do" Flamingo! 

Looking forward to Kuper's. 

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Posted in Small Town Insurrection

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Cheers, Drew. Thanks for

Posted on Fri, 30 Sep 2022

Cheers, Drew. Thanks for reading. Probably the four books I was thinking before starting the WIP were RB's Sombrero, Anna Kavan's Ice, Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and Venedikt Yerofeyev's Moscow Stations (one of my all time favourites). I don't...

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Posted in Small Town Insurrection

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Thanks, Drew -- appreciate

Posted on Fri, 08 Jul 2022

Thanks, Drew -- appreciate you reading both sections and the feedback.

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Posted in Alabaster Conjugal 4.1

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Nicely done! Very enjoyable.

Posted on Fri, 08 Jul 2022

Nicely done! Very enjoyable.

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Posted in The Miracle of Maldon (Part Three of Three)

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