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Garry Crystal

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Garry Crystal is a writer living in Scotland, UK.

His short stories and articles have appeared in print and online including Expats Post, The Adirondack Review, Turnrow Journal, Roadside Fiction and Orato.

His first novel Leaving London is available on Amazon. His first collection of short stories All of Us With Our Pointless Worries and Inconsequential Dramas is available now on Amazon.

Average rating: 3.61 · 36 ratings · 3 reviews · 11 distinct works
Leaving London

3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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A Relationship, in Pieces

2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions
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And When the Arguing's Over...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Grand Canyon

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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The Last Busker in London a...

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Red Lights

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2019 — 5 editions
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And Then There Is...

 

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And then there is hurt…

There is blame…

Until hopefully, acceptance.

Some become stuck

In the hurt, the blame

Wasting years

Disintegrating from the inside

Adding to the hurt

Spreading the blame

Infecting others

With their own reflection



Leave it behind

Become the individual

You were

Not their idea of who you ar

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“Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping that the person being lied to is gullible enough to believe, and it’s also not even that they think they are gullible, it’s that they know the person they are lying to well enough that they know the person won’t push it any further because they know the person they are lying to wants to believe the lie.”
Garry Crystal, And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays

“Well, you may think you have all your ducks in a row, that your life is sorted. You might have the perfect house, the perfect job, the perfect life, nothing to worry about and then something can come along and end all of that in a second. It’s absolutely beyond your control. You can’t plan for unexpected things. And then people start saying, as a way of coping with this latest catastrophe, that it was meant to happen, it was fate. It’s not fate, it’s not some greater force out there. It’s just life and you cannot control life.”
Garry Crystal, Leaving London

“Addiction is a battle between love and hate. My therapist was right about that.”
Garry Crystal, Red Lights

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“You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.”
Garry Crystal, Leaving London

“Your problem is that you’re more like an empty book and you’re waiting on someone else to write your pages for you. For someone who doesn’t believe in fate, destiny and all that shit, you seem to spend an awful lot of time waiting for something to happen to you.”
Garry Crystal, Leaving London

“The thing about lying is it’s like creating your own world, controlling your own little world. A tiny innocent, or as some people call them white lie, can lead eventually to the break-up of a relationship. If the other person in the relationship knows the person has lied, no matter if it was with good intentions, then it’s the beginning of the breakdown of trust. A profile or a picture is being continually formed of the two people in a relationship, and the lies, big and small, add to that profile.”
Garry Crystal, And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays

“Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping that the person being lied to is gullible enough to believe, and it’s also not even that they think they are gullible, it’s that they know the person they are lying to well enough that they know the person won’t push it any further because they know the person they are lying to wants to believe the lie.”
Garry Crystal, And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays

“If you aren’t paranoid before you arrive in this city, give it a few weeks and you will soon notice it creeping in, dripping into your subconscious like a leaky tap. The trick is not to give a flying fuck what anyone thinks about you, and if you are in the right frame of mind this can be an easy trick to perform but if not you’ll soon notice that for a city full of people who do a great Stevie Wonder impersonation when it comes to the homeless and beggars and casual violence towards others, wearing the wrong kind of shoes or a cheap suit brings out a sneering, hateful attitude that can have weaker minded individuals locked in their houses for weeks before harassing their doctors for prescriptions of Prozac and Beta blockers just to make it out the front door.”
Garry Crystal, Leaving London

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