Tag Archives: Family
A Forest Setting: A Ghost Story For Halloween.
In the middle of breakfast, his sister was suddenly pouring her phone under his nose. “Hey brother, look at this!” …
Where Some Of Us Are Currently.
I walked up this evening from my apartment in Newington to a pub that I currently favour on the Southside. …
Knowledge Beyond Knowledge.
When she, the mistress, stepped into the cabin, her first thought was that she was inside a storage facility and …
At the Cabins.
She, the mistress, had appeared suddenly on that dirt courtyard that had formed between the cabins. The amazement had been …
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 …
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 …