Locusts.
Amy had piled the locusts into a tower almost as high as a man beside the front door. To an …
Tag Archives: Lovers
An Edinburgh Valentine’s Day Tale.
Artur’s girlfriend Wicktoria did not actually have a bedroom. In the living room of her flat, there was a space …
More Autumn Leaves.
The Story of the Trapdoor.
The following story took place across two different parties. If you had happened to have been at both parties, in …
How Things Are With Me.
The No-Go Rooms.
When the new girl arrived back at the house that evening, longing to put her feet up after traipsing for …
The Room Under The Eaves.
The house had settled down after lunch; little doors had opened in inconspicuous places and gulped down all of those …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (45).
Up with your nimble spirits, ye morrice-dancers, green-men, and glee-maidens, bears and wolves, and horned gentlemen! Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The May-Pole …
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 …
Another Update.
At some point back in 2009 I had persuaded a reluctant Renata to open a Facebook account. We had set …
The Fairy Boy of Leith.
[You may recognise this as a retelling of an old Edinburgh fireside tale.] Once his ship was berthed in Leith, …
Meet the Author.
The party was already thinning when I arrived and the remaining partygoers looked up at me with sudden hope in …
Valentines.
Edinburgh had lately enjoyed three days of unbroken sunshine and everybody was wondering when it was going to end. It …
The Lady of the Lake.
The end of the year found me driving to my sister’s house deep in the fens. She had sent me …
