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Laurence Sullivan

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in Birmingham, The United Kingdom

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Runner-up in the Wicked Young Writer Awards: Gregory Maguire Award, Laurence Sullivan's creative writing has appeared in such places as: Londonist, The List, NHK World-Japan, Firewords Magazine and Popshot Quarterly.

Sullivan became inspired to start writing during his studies at the universities of Kent, Utrecht and Birmingham, after being immersed in all forms of literature from across the globe and enjoying every moment of it. In 2023, he completed a PhD in the Medical Humanities at Northumbria University, exploring literary portrayals of women's domestic medicine during the eighteenth century. When not writing, he can probably be found playing video games whilst quaffing copious amounts of tea. ...more

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	Forgotten Ones: Drabbles of Myth and Legend by Alanna Robertson-Webb (Editor), Michelle River (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nick Moorefox (Contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beneath: Hundred Word Horror by A.R. Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Raglin (Goodreads Author), Doungai Gam 4.39 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oceans (Dark Drabbles, #9) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Anderson (Goodreads Author), Cassandra Angler 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Magic by A.E. Hellstorm (Goodreads Author), A.S. MacKenzie (Goodreads Author), Adrian J. Johnson 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancients (Dark Drabbles, #10) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Trynda E. Adair (Goodreads Author), Laila Amado (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wyrms: An Anthology of Dragon Drabbles by Eric Fomley (Editor), Laurence Sullivan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lockdown: Phantom, #3 (Lockdown Phantom, #3) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maggie Pawsey (Editor), S.N. Graves (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darker Times Collection Volume One by Jessica Grace Coleman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laurence Sullivan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darker Times Collection Volume Two by Jessica Grace Coleman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laurence Sullivan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), N.O.A. Rawle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bouquet of Goodbyes by Laurence Sullivan (Goodreads Author), Alban Low (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

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Laurence’s Quotes

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: death, loss

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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“Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

tags: damned, hell, religion

169 likes

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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