A Tale from the Borneo Rainforest (By Night).
[Part 1: By Day.] All at once, Ellen was taken aback by her husband’s appearance. “You look seriously unwell,” she …
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A Tale from the Borneo Rainforest (By Day).
The jungle had arrived at the brink of a perilous ravine and a sheet of orange cardboard which simply read …
Farewell Old Friend.
It was a free day and one that I had left yawning like a tiger trap, for something marvellous to …
Funtime.
“We’ve got to stand up for the right to take the piss out of these monsters, these fools, these posturing …
Letter: Ban Alcohol Advertising in Sport.
[Tychy has today received a letter from a group of medical leaders, public health campaigners and health charities calling for …
Childermass.
On the floor a small envelope containing the unmistakable shape of a Christmas card was lying amongst the day’s flyers …
A Warm Welcome to Jim Murphy.
Tychy opposes the idea that what the Left really needs at this point in the coma is a nationalist revival. …
Moonbat (2/2).
[PART 1.] Two months later an escalating rodent infestation shut down half the plant. The moon project was expecting an …
Castle Review: Castelo de São Jorge.
I like Lisbon. A mild, neat city, with buildings dressed in ceramic tiles and each pavement a sheen of slippery …
Moonbat (1/2).
“The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow; “Oho,” quoth he, “the old earth is frolicsome to-night!”” Nathaniel Hawthorne, …
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 …
Home Wrecker: A Ghost Story for Halloween (1/2).
INTRODUCTION. Timothy was one of Pablo’s cronies, by which I mean that they both took drugs together. At parties, you …
How the University of Edinburgh was turned into a Victorian melodrama.
Are you a crusading student who is aflame with idealism and ready to give society a good shake up? Oh, …
Fading Out of the Room.
[From a caper it has somehow morphed into a commitment: every year Tychy must submit a ghost story for Halloween. …
A Fringe Interview with Alex Salmond.
I emerge from the Gilded Balloon, ten minutes before the next show, and who is this striding towards the McEwan …
