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Live By The Sword.

November 9, 2022

Andrzej Štefan had been sitting waiting at one of the high tables by the window. He was waiting for the …

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Eyeroll.

March 10, 2022

This afternoon I walked back from work to my apartment in Newington. There was a kind of blizzard of slush …

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Downing Street Parties and the Age of Insincerity.

January 23, 2022

It is self-evident that Boris Johnson should resign because of the “parties” that his government department had held during the …

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Sundive.

May 24, 2018

The sun had hung above Edinburgh for over two days now and most people doubted that much more time could …

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In the Banshee Labyrinth.

September 29, 2017

Tonight I am thinking of the last time that I was in the banshee labyrinth. It was several years ago, …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Mule/How Is Uncle John?

August 4, 2016

Quite fortuitously, the two plays that I saw today, before and after lunch, turned out to be thematically kindred and …

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The First Attempt (1/2).

June 1, 2016

Ellen Stewart had stood thunderstruck on first hearing the news. Fourteen people had sponsored her husband to complete the Edinburgh …

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The Named Person Mysteries: The Case of the Teetotal Teenager.

March 8, 2016

[It has just occurred to me that there has never been, in the entire history of detective fiction, a detective …

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Not Real Policemen.

February 3, 2016

Dawn had already lifted the hem of the night when Chief Inspector Andy Uberingham and his men retook Joppa Grange. …

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An English Ghost Story.

June 5, 2015

Seldom are the ghost stories that appear on Tychy set in England. Some people get very upset about this kind …

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The Hill to Bedfordshire (3/3).

April 24, 2015

[#1 and #2.] The next morning, Gareth and Joe stood at the back door. Joe was picking at the most …

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Home Wrecker: A Ghost Story for Halloween (2/2).

October 31, 2014

INTRODUCTION and PART 1. I had wanted to sit back and be alone with the city for a while, doing …

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Home Wrecker: A Ghost Story for Halloween (1/2).

October 30, 2014

INTRODUCTION. Timothy was one of Pablo’s cronies, by which I mean that they both took drugs together. At parties, you …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Silk Road.

August 11, 2014

[The following contains spoilers.] Alex Oates’ “Silk Road,” which is currently playing somewhere underneath George Square, takes up the subject …

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A Libertarian Take on the Silk Road Shutdown.

October 9, 2013

I am a libertarian in everything but name. I do like the name but it rolls off the tongue with …

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