Short Story Review: “Gentlemen, The Queen” and “Provide for Your Poor Sisters” by Fred Urquhart.
[“An Introduction to Exploring Fred Urquhart’s Short Stories.”] Fred Urquhart’s short stories “Gentlemen, the Queen” and “Provide For Your Poor …
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Tychy @ the Fringe: Rajesh and Naresh.
We are all packed into the Summerhall’s Old Lab this afternoon, like day-trippers in a charabanc, to see ŠITE Productions’ …
Face To Face.
Amir was stealing around the bed, until he had reached where Reggie’s left hand lay very fresh and vivid on …
We Pick Up Amir’s Story Again.
We pick up Amir’s story again outside a one-bedroom apartment in Warrender Park Crescent. Amir has lived here since his …
A Scottish Highlands Ghost Story.
[It has become customary for Tychy to publish a ghost story on or around Halloween, but unfortunately the world has …
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.
Stacey’s party had been up in that stretch of Dalry that remains fresh and picturesque without yet being visibly gentrified. …
Shut Your Pan!
After the first month of lockdown, Pippa hated everything about her apartment. Its circuit of interiors seemed to have lately …
Dyspnoea.
“¡Joder! Is this even real?” “What is it doing here?” The red stag stood plumb in the middle of Morningside …
Clearout.
Rufus Stewart owns a single-bedroom apartment in Gorgie, which he had until recently rented out to a young barman named …
“So I’ve Heard.”
A party, on New Year’s Eve, in a flat so small that it is as if thirty or so people …
Arts Review: “Bacon en Toutes Lettres” at the Pompidou Centre.
Francis Bacon’s paintings are a source of such anxiety because they flout all of the previously understood etiquette relating to …
Players: A Ghost Story for Halloween.
He was strings but no drama. Ana hadn’t wanted or needed strings but neither had she resisted their inevitable creeping …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre.
Is the best show that I have seen so far at this year’s Fringe a one-man play? This would be …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Four Woke Baes.
Jonathan Caren’s “Four Woke Baes” is currently showing at the Cowgate Underbelly. It begins by speaking of the Devil. Four …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Smoke.
[The following contains spoilers.] The Pleasance Zoo has been hiding from my love but I have finally tracked it down …
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