A Tale from the Borneo Rainforest (By Night).
[Part 1: By Day.] All at once, Ellen was taken aback by her husband’s appearance. “You look seriously unwell,” she …
Category Archives: Short Stories.
A Tale from the Borneo Rainforest (By Day).
The jungle had arrived at the brink of a perilous ravine and a sheet of orange cardboard which simply read …
Farewell Old Friend.
It was a free day and one that I had left yawning like a tiger trap, for something marvellous to …
Funtime.
“We’ve got to stand up for the right to take the piss out of these monsters, these fools, these posturing …
Childermass.
On the floor a small envelope containing the unmistakable shape of a Christmas card was lying amongst the day’s flyers …
Moonbat (2/2).
[PART 1.] Two months later an escalating rodent infestation shut down half the plant. The moon project was expecting an …
Moonbat (1/2).
“The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow; “Oho,” quoth he, “the old earth is frolicsome to-night!”” Nathaniel Hawthorne, …
Home Wrecker: A Ghost Story for Halloween (2/2).
INTRODUCTION and PART 1. I had wanted to sit back and be alone with the city for a while, doing …
Home Wrecker: A Ghost Story for Halloween (1/2).
INTRODUCTION. Timothy was one of Pablo’s cronies, by which I mean that they both took drugs together. At parties, you …
Fading Out of the Room.
[From a caper it has somehow morphed into a commitment: every year Tychy must submit a ghost story for Halloween. …
All Work and No Play.
The hard-working family had moved into number 34 at the beginning of April. Reluctantly, and with quite ineffectual feelings of …
On the Road with National Collective.
It was a stunning afternoon in July and a matter of weeks until the day of the vote. By the …
The Right to be Forgotten.
After I had graduated in 1995, I spent two years living in Barcelona. I never really got on with this …
Another Update.
At some point back in 2009 I had persuaded a reluctant Renata to open a Facebook account. We had set …
What a Speculative Society Meeting Looks Like.
On the bus yesterday, between Leith and Morningside, I sat and examined the Edinburgh University Student Newspaper’s front-page investigation into …
