Great Goodness.
It was so early in the morning that the light seemed to sting like antiseptic. The boy detective was crossing …
Tag Archives: Humor
A Solution to the Backstop.
In remarkable news from Venezuela, a recent dispute has left the country with two presidents. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, …
The Students Who Were Made of Glass.
The Vice-Chancellor’s personal assistant had managed to briefly recapture him. It was late morning and she had fastened on to …
The Foresters (A Christmas Tale).
It was spare land and not an area that you could have ever imagined being put to any active use. …
Jaws Sprung.
When Amir woke that morning, the first thing that he did was to lie in his bedsheets and listen to …
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. …
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 …
