Some Nuts and Bolts of Edinburgh’s Economy.
When I was leaving for work this morning, Polly and Tori were both on their knees in a cleared space …
Tag Archives: Family
Short Story Review: Duolingo Stories.
Duolingo is the biggest language-learning app in the world and it counts its active users in the tens of millions. …
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. …
A Story While My Phone Charges.
I spent an energyless afternoon alone in my apartment, striding around the rooms and looking out of the windows. These …
Great Goodness.
It was so early in the morning that the light seemed to sting like antiseptic. The boy detective was crossing …
The Train.
After lunch they had all agreed to go for a walk. There was a large park – over eighty acres …
Jaws Sprung.
When Amir woke that morning, the first thing that he did was to lie in his bedsheets and listen to …
Army in Place.
There were seven McSweenies in all. By now, all of them were men – the youngest was twenty-one and the …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Working Class Hero.
There is considerable bemusement across the Fringe and it is of totally the wrong kind. The “funniest” joke of the …
Introducing the Detective.
The house looked immediately like a stroke of mischief. It was from the late-Victorian period and so symmetrical that it …
The Named Person Mysteries: The Case of the Teetotal Teenager.
[It has just occurred to me that there has never been, in the entire history of detective fiction, a detective …
Up On The House.
Back in the drawing room, the man who was known to them as Upensky was gripping the carpet with both …
Book Review: Weathering.
[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …
Childermass.
On the floor a small envelope containing the unmistakable shape of a Christmas card was lying amongst the day’s flyers …
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 …
Tychy 