A Night in June.
Irina had been awoken by a feeling that everything around her was lurching away unstoppably. She was uncertain whether the …
Irina had been awoken by a feeling that everything around her was lurching away unstoppably. She was uncertain whether the …
Stacey’s party had been up in that stretch of Dalry that remains fresh and picturesque without yet being visibly gentrified. …
I had been left standing marooned at the bar beside the old man in the tux. He looked me over …
Myself and my editor James have both worked in bars from time to time and we have both run into …
INTRODUCTION and PART 1. I had wanted to sit back and be alone with the city for a while, doing …
INTRODUCTION. Timothy was one of Pablo’s cronies, by which I mean that they both took drugs together. At parties, you …
You encounter these creatures on either side of the entrance to the Scottish National War Memorial, or carved gorgeously in …
Pablo had dated several Polish women before but never had he lived with one. Finally, he was so in love …
[You may recognise this as a retelling of an old Edinburgh fireside tale.] Once his ship was berthed in Leith, …
[Part 1 is here.] Down the corridor and around the corner, I was confronted with a swollen, impatient queue, all …
When you are young you can take a single gulp of air and then party all around the city without …
My old friend Daniel had provided a sobering example to all of us, an example that makes one shudder down …
We should not have begun at the sea. It would have been basic narrative competence to pick up the “silver …
One should look for more imaginative and certainly less painful ways to “service” the national debt than by merely sacking …
Adieu Crighton Place!