Omonolidee: Dolce Campo Real, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019

By David E. Gates

Join David E. Gates and his golfing buddies as they travel to the Dolce Campo Real Resort in Lisbon, Portugal for the David E. Gates Memorial Cup 2019.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David E. Gates
• Release date: Jul 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463840788

David E. Gates

David E. Gates has published several books and short-stories. His first book, Access Denied, is a true story.  A deeply personal and heart-wrenching account of becoming a father and having to fight the mother and Family Courts to see his daughter and also battles against the incompetence and lies of the Child Support Agency who seem hell-bent on ruining him, emotionally and financially.. It has garnered 100% positive reviews. The Roots of Evil, his first horror novel, is a graphic, violent, intense and gore-laden horror story. His second fictional novel, The Wretched, is an original horror story set in and around Portsmouth. David has made a documentary film about the battlefield memorials in Ypres, Belgium called Ypres – The Battlefield Tours and previously wrote film reviews for Starburst and Samhain magazines and interviewed the likes of Clive Barker, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert and many others. He has also written many short stories and poems, a full-length motion picture screenplay, the screenplay to a short film and in his spare time hosts a rock radio show. Also by David E. Gates: Access Denied The Roots of Evil The Wretched Omonolidee First Words Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman The Projectionist A Planned Demise The Ghost of Clothes Fixing the Faker The Christmas Carol Omonolidee - Morgado, Portugal, 2018. Two Sides of Vegas

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Omonolidee – Dolce Campo Real, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019

Copyright © 2019, David E. Gates

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Published by Shelley Show Productions

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Books

Access Denied

The Roots of Evil

Omonolidee

First Words

The Wretched

Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman

Short Stories

The Ghost of Clothes

The Christmas Carol

A Planned Demise

Omonolidee – Two Sides of Vegas

Omonolidee – Morgado, Portugal, 2018

Fixing the Faker

End Request

Films

Ypres – The Battlefields Tour

Coming Soon

The Deeper Roots of Evil

The Climbing Frame

Dedication

For Al'

(Happy 50th Fella!)

Tuesday, 11th June 2019

And so, once again, it begins.

The 2019 David E. Gates Memorial Cup World Tour starts with Butch (aka Chris) phoning Gatesy and asking him what time to expect his arrival at his house that evening. Of course, the flights don’t leave until Thursday morning, but Butch still tries to wind him, our hero, and namesake of the annual golf tournament, David E. Gates, up.

No, we fly out tomorrow morning. He says.

No, we don’t, ya twat. Gatesy tells him. It’s Thursday. We fly out Thursday and I come to yours tomorrow.

Eventually, after persevering for a couple more times, Chris relents and realises his wind-up has failed.

They talk about how they’re looking forward to this year’s event, how nice it will be to get an extra day by arriving mid-afternoon, as opposed to late evening, a dip in the pool, getting hammered on the first night and then working out where they’re going next year.

The WhatsApp Window Licker’s Golf Tour group bursts into action after Jules (Hedditch) innocently asks if Eric’s checking everyone in.

Butch tries to bag an aisle seat.

Shotgun the aisle, He says, followed quickly by Maybe not say ‘shotgun’.

Arse (Eric) chirps in.

Bomb the window.

The talk soon turns to penalties for Pat’s inability to organise this year’s shindig. The phrase Penalty Pat would become a staple of address for the man throughout the weekend. The initial suggestion,