The Devil’s Coin.
I once worked in some kitchens where the very best chef was an Italian man named Sergio. I don’t know …
Tag Archives: Whisky
The Last Ever Can of Irn-Bru in the World.
I went to visit Angus shortly after the twelfth referendum. NO had once again won by the slenderest of margins. …
The Named Person Mysteries: The Case of the Teetotal Teenager.
[It has just occurred to me that there has never been, in the entire history of detective fiction, a detective …
Bar Devils.
Tourist Review (20): (The auld) Kirk Alloway.
So this is it. The kirk where a passing Tam o’Shanter had paused to watch the witches’ ceilidh. I immediately …
Meet the Author.
The party was already thinning when I arrived and the remaining partygoers looked up at me with sudden hope in …
Tourist Review (13): The Glen Grant Distillery.
We’re on the road to the Glen Grant distillery. The passing hills and mountains bump the sky, as bare as …
600 in the Club.
Interview with Yang Guang and Tian Tian.
[Scene: The Standing Order.] Tychy: So how much time will we have with them? James: They said that they would …
Fishface.
Last summer, our website was approached by a Lithuanian entrepreneur who wanted to borrow our brains for a couple of …
Supermoon.
[Dedicated to anybody who celebrated the recent Supermoon. There is more lunar fare on Tychy here and here. Ed.]
Bewitched in Lovers’ Loan.
The suburbs south of the Meadows have a Gothicism all of their own, deriving from a particularly Gothic conception of …
Intervention.
I had been temping at the undertakers for several weeks before the head of the firm, Feliks, finally invited Renata …
Letter from the Man in the Moon (2).
[#1 is here.] My dear Tychy. It has been over two years since you first hinted that your website would …
The Devil On Your Back (5/7).
[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …
