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Meet the Author.

May 15, 2013

The party was already thinning when I arrived and the remaining partygoers looked up at me with sudden hope in …

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Tourist Review (13): The Glen Grant Distillery.

April 27, 2012

We’re on the road to the Glen Grant distillery. The passing hills and mountains bump the sky, as bare as …

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600 in the Club.

January 9, 2012

Interview with Yang Guang and Tian Tian.

December 13, 2011

[Scene: The Standing Order.] Tychy: So how much time will we have with them? James: They said that they would …

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Fishface.

June 7, 2011

Last summer, our website was approached by a Lithuanian entrepreneur who wanted to borrow our brains for a couple of …

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Supermoon.

April 2, 2011

[Dedicated to anybody who celebrated the recent Supermoon. There is more lunar fare on Tychy here and here. Ed.]

Bewitched in Lovers’ Loan.

March 16, 2011

The suburbs south of the Meadows have a Gothicism all of their own, deriving from a particularly Gothic conception of …

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Intervention.

January 12, 2011

I had been temping at the undertakers for several weeks before the head of the firm, Feliks, finally invited Renata …

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Letter from the Man in the Moon (2).

December 29, 2010

[#1 is here.] My dear Tychy. It has been over two years since you first hinted that your website would …

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The Devil On Your Back (5/7).

December 22, 2010

[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …

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The Devil On Your Back (3/7).

December 21, 2010

[“The Devil On Your Back," a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …

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A Midsummer Romance.

July 17, 2010

There is little work in the city at this time of year and all that the agency has to offer …

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A Quote for St. Patrick’s Day.

March 17, 2010

(To be sung with boisterous expression.) I. There was a lady lived at Leith, A lady very stylish, man; And …

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Foretold with Plant Feeder.

December 14, 2009

I have many stories in the cellars of my mind – each waits like a bottle of whisky for the …

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The Haunted Mill.

November 26, 2009

I awoke this morning in the middle of an incredibly powerful dream, and flung bolt upright in bed, reeling as …

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