Locked Down in Edinburgh (3).
“You know that when I was thirteen years old, I broke my leg. It was actually the lion’s share of …
Category Archives: Short Stories.
The Corona Rock Snake Attacks!
The citizens of Edinburgh had made the snake on the Meadows. I suppose that most of the people who had …
Shut Your Pan!
After the first month of lockdown, Pippa hated everything about her apartment. Its circuit of interiors seemed to have lately …
Locked Down in Edinburgh (2).
I left my apartment this morning for another bout of government-permitted exercise. Each time that I do this there are …
Locked Down in Edinburgh.
Out on a stroll this morning, I ended up drifting pruriently towards the Royal Mile. Almost all of this street’s …
At Doctor Hwangbo’s.
It was not yet ten in the morning but the sky was already straining in its depths with the acutest …
Dyspnoea.
“¡Joder! Is this even real?” “What is it doing here?” The red stag stood plumb in the middle of Morningside …
Clearout.
Rufus Stewart owns a single-bedroom apartment in Gorgie, which he had until recently rented out to a young barman named …
“Infancy” in The Drouth.
It is day 4 of your self-isolation and you have read and watched everything. Well, may I recommend a short-story, …
Easy Come.
When Tim walked into the office that morning, everybody immediately went quiet. He had the sudden dazed, dream-dust feeling that …
Thirty Pence.
Today Archie Corpusty was going to need to have some mortal money to hand. He knew that he had a …
At Doctor Trezvant’s.
Although it was not yet noon, the sky was already a disconcertingly deep and soulful blue. So blue that its …
“So I’ve Heard.”
A party, on New Year’s Eve, in a flat so small that it is as if thirty or so people …
Flutter By.
In the south of Edinburgh, on the generally less civilised side of the bypass, stands a butterfly sanctuary. The butterflies …
Furrows.
A field stretching out in all directions like a huge empty mind. The boy had been following the plough all …
