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Tag Archives: Melancholy.

Eyeroll.

March 10, 2022

This afternoon I walked back from work to my apartment in Newington. There was a kind of blizzard of slush …

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Face To Face.

December 20, 2021

Amir was stealing around the bed, until he had reached where Reggie’s left hand lay very fresh and vivid on …

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We Pick Up Amir’s Story Again.

December 2, 2021

We pick up Amir’s story again outside a one-bedroom apartment in Warrender Park Crescent. Amir has lived here since his …

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A Scottish Highlands Ghost Story.

October 31, 2021

[It has become customary for Tychy to publish a ghost story on or around Halloween, but unfortunately the world has …

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Up, Up And Away.

November 22, 2020

Three days ago the whole house had been placed into lockdown. The students had been told that they could not …

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On the Motif of Hell in Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream.

October 14, 2020

[The following contains spoilers.] Has Thomas Hudson, the hero of Ernest Hemingway’s posthumously-published novel Islands in the Stream (1970), been …

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On Autobiography in Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream.

September 3, 2020

[The following contains spoilers.] Ernest Hemingway had started writing the text that would become Islands in the Stream in 1946. …

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Hopalong.

November 11, 2019

Sadie.

September 17, 2019

I have never kept a diary before. Or rather, not a diary that I have ever opened up to, as …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Moon Walk.

August 19, 2019

[The following contains spoilers.] Sprutt Theater are from Emerson College in Boston and their new play “Moon Walk,” by Brooke …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Numbers.

August 18, 2019

You can currently catch Alex Blanc’s new play “Numbers” at C Aquila. Jack (Henry Waddon) is twenty-one years old, a …

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Letter from the Man in the Moon (4).

April 2, 2019

My dear Tychy. It has been over five years since I last sent you a letter but when I look …

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The Train.

January 16, 2019

After lunch they had all agreed to go for a walk. There was a large park – over eighty acres …

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The End of the Fringe: When the Friendship Has Sailed.

August 28, 2018

It is customary for my final review of the Fringe to alight upon some suitably gloomy topic. Harrowingly, the Fringe’s …

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Ten Years of Tychy.

February 8, 2018

At the Hive, everybody was sucking on tiny lollipops and drinking cocktails with Nutella in. Polly had given her sister …

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