Flyers: A Ghost Story for Halloween.
The first time they got a flyer into his hand he was passing the Pleasance Dome. It was early afternoon. …
Tag Archives: Humor
Two Bar Music Stories.
Myself and my editor James have both worked in bars from time to time and we have both run into …
The Reverend Stuart Campbell Sues for Defamation!
What bliss it was to be alive in Bath that morning. As the Reverend Stuart Campbell was preaching his sermon …
Army in Place.
There were seven McSweenies in all. By now, all of them were men – the youngest was twenty-one and the …
Funky Chicken.
Myself, Tori, and several of her work friends today made up a small, chance luncheon party. The venue was a …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 23).
[SCENE: The outside seating at the 56 North gin bar. Tychy, James, Tori, Pablo and Hutu the Clown are sitting …
Arts Review: Rip It Up.
“Your music belongs in a museum” is not, I think, a compliment. Nonetheless, most of the exhibits in Rip It …
The Last Ever Can of Irn-Bru in the World.
I went to visit Angus shortly after the twelfth referendum. NO had once again won by the slenderest of margins. …
Sundive.
The sun had hung above Edinburgh for over two days now and most people doubted that much more time could …
Poetry Review: A Royal Wedding Poem by Carol Ann Duffy.
How can she stand it – how can anybody stand it – this prostitution of English literature in front of …
Time to Crash Out!
Summer is here, the city is fresher than it’s felt in a long time, and it’s time to crash out! …
An Edinburgh Office Telephone Conversation.
“Good afternoon. Shortbread factory. Steve speaking.” A man’s voice. “Hello… er… is that the shortbread factory?” “Indeed it is. How …
Should St Peter’s Seminary be Left to the Wilderness?
St Peter’s Seminary stands ruined in the woods outside Cardross. It is a two hour and twenty minute train ride …
The Barriers: A Fable of Globalisation.
Dawn brought a fretful little breeze and Erastus Balloo lumbering along in his sepia hatchback, a car so undistinguished that …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 22).
[SCENE: The BrewDog on the Cowgate, an apparently half-dismantled bar with bare brickwork on the walls and a stripped-away ceiling. …
