What Can The Matter Be?
There had been a single sunny day, in between the cool days and the gloomy ones, rather like a peal …
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The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 27).
[SCENE: The interior of the Bennets Bar. James, Tychy and Tori are seated four tables down with bottles and glasses of …
Up From Royal Circus.
Tori and I were walking up from Royal Circus, up to where Edinburgh’s head seems to suddenly clear and Stockbridge …
Live By The Sword.
Andrzej Štefan had been sitting waiting at one of the high tables by the window. He was waiting for the …
My Days-of-Mourning Diary.
This is what it must be like for those people who live in a town at the base of a …
A Story from St Patrick’s.
When Ken entered the pub he was already marauding and in a dangerous mood. He felt strangely weightless on his …
Eyeroll.
This afternoon I walked back from work to my apartment in Newington. There was a kind of blizzard of slush …
At the Cabins.
She, the mistress, had appeared suddenly on that dirt courtyard that had formed between the cabins. The amazement had been …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 26).
[SCENE: The courtyard of the Peartree. It is early afternoon and James is sitting at a picnic table in the …
The Story of the Old Man in the Tux.
I had been left standing marooned at the bar beside the old man in the tux. He looked me over …
A Cocktail Crash-Lands.
The cafeteria seemed much cooler now that I had stopped eating. With faux-casualness, I had folded a used napkin over …
Al Fresco.
The Knavery of “Keeping Safe.”
We have lately reached a stage in the COVID-19 pandemic in which the two most irritating words in the English …
Exhaustion.
Stay safe, guys…
How Christmas Was Kept Amongst The Help.
After the road had forked, all of the men who remained were travelling in the same direction through the woods. …
Tychy 