The Corona Rock Snake Attacks!
The citizens of Edinburgh had made the snake on the Meadows. I suppose that most of the people who had …
Tag Archives: Satire
Shut Your Pan!
After the first month of lockdown, Pippa hated everything about her apartment. Its circuit of interiors seemed to have lately …
Podcast Review: The Heads of Sierra Blanca.
[The following contains spoilers.] The Paragon Collective is a commercial podcasting house that is based in Los Angeles. It was …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 24). Covid-19 Special.
[SCENE: Not a pub. We are in the living room of Zbigniew Tycienski’s Newington apartment. There are two large perspex …
Easy Come.
When Tim walked into the office that morning, everybody immediately went quiet. He had the sudden dazed, dream-dust feeling that …
Factcheck: Is Greta Thunberg really “a brat”?
Tychy has recently teamed up with the Guardian’s “Factcheck” service, which assesses the claims that are made by various politicians …
Flutter By.
In the south of Edinburgh, on the generally less civilised side of the bypass, stands a butterfly sanctuary. The butterflies …
Fish Hell (Shark).
SEAHORSES. CODFISH. OCTOPUS. I had caught an early train and the day was still barely a glimmer around the rim …
Fish Hell (Octopus).
After the aquarium had closed and it had been made sufficiently presentable again for the next day, we all gathered …
Fish Hell (Codfish).
A chance meeting in front of the piranha tanks. The exhibits hung behind us, poised in all of their sinister …
Fish Hell (Seahorses).
The staff meeting had been scheduled before the aquarium opened for the day. This meeting had bowled in clean out …
Who is LURK?
On Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean there dwells a particular species of red crab that once a year emerges …
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 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 …
