The Big Black Man.
The big black man stood in the entrance to the bank’s cafeteria. He was emblazoned on a tall, free-standing plastic …
Category Archives: Short Stories.
Our Interview with the Botendaddy.
Readers of many summers and winters will remember that my editor James and I had once travelled to the USA …
Empathy.
Erastus Balloo beat the traffic to be on the campus and in his office before eight o’clock. He opened the …
The Paradox of a Revolutionary Cup of Coffee
My employment agency sometimes sends me to a pub in the south of Edinburgh which is called The Buns. It …
Hither and Thither.
For several days, Amy rarely left the room in the tower and she lay mostly on the floor inside the …
A Room in the Tower.
The villa with which the street resumed after the T-junction was of a type common to Edinburgh’s suburbs. It was …
Locusts.
Amy had piled the locusts into a tower almost as high as a man beside the front door. To an …
An Edinburgh Valentine’s Day Tale.
Artur’s girlfriend Wicktoria did not actually have a bedroom. In the living room of her flat, there was a space …
A Spare Script for a Short Film.
[I was recently auditing an old USB stick and I came across a script which I had written for a …
Yours Faithfully.
[Last year, a friend of mine gave me a beautiful notebook with a jacket of clipped sealskin. Its mottled fur …
Just the Thing: A Christmas Story.
Caspar had been recruited for some of the deception and he had been bemused, dubious, patient up until things looked …
The Story of the Trapdoor.
The following story took place across two different parties. If you had happened to have been at both parties, in …
The Wee Ginger Dug: A Scottish Horror Story for Halloween.
Fergus and Morag MacAskill lived in a large farmhouse some miles down the road from Inverness. They were eager to …
The Headless Horseman: Another Ghost Story for Halloween.
It was three in the morning on the double bed, in the double room, in the Travelodge at Cameron Toll. …
How Mrs Barton Hit Back.
The morning was not yet worn away to noon when Dr Hwangbo approached the mansion. It stood in one of …
