Clearout.
Rufus Stewart owns a single-bedroom apartment in Gorgie, which he had until recently rented out to a young barman named …
Tag Archives: Humor
Easy Come.
When Tim walked into the office that morning, everybody immediately went quiet. He had the sudden dazed, dream-dust feeling that …
Thirty Pence.
Today Archie Corpusty was going to need to have some mortal money to hand. He knew that he had a …
Did Bram Stoker Suffer from Fleas?
Academic studies of Bram Stoker’s extraordinary vampire novel Dracula (1897) are today like so much landfill. Modernists and postmodernists, Freudians …
At Doctor Trezvant’s.
Although it was not yet noon, the sky was already a disconcertingly deep and soulful blue. So blue that its …
“So I’ve Heard.”
A party, on New Year’s Eve, in a flat so small that it is as if thirty or so people …
Factcheck: Is Greta Thunberg really “a brat”?
Tychy has recently teamed up with the Guardian’s “Factcheck” service, which assesses the claims that are made by various politicians …
Flutter By.
In the south of Edinburgh, on the generally less civilised side of the bypass, stands a butterfly sanctuary. The butterflies …
Furrows.
A field stretching out in all directions like a huge empty mind. The boy had been following the plough all …
The Death of Henry.
When the building had been first built, three ornamental maple trees had been planted in a row outside the entrance …
Ugly Bunch.
It was late afternoon and I was in the Bethany Shop on the Causewayside. I did not know what exactly …
Panic.
“This is Peggy,” Josephine explained as she entered the room. Peggy walked behind her looking very solemn and watchful. Josephine …
Fish Hell (Shark).
SEAHORSES. CODFISH. OCTOPUS. I had caught an early train and the day was still barely a glimmer around the rim …
The Devil’s Coin.
I once worked in some kitchens where the very best chef was an Italian man named Sergio. I don’t know …
Fish Hell (Octopus).
After the aquarium had closed and it had been made sufficiently presentable again for the next day, we all gathered …
