Fish Hell (Octopus).
After the aquarium had closed and it had been made sufficiently presentable again for the next day, we all gathered …
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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 …
Vaguely S Luca.
This is just a one-off. I don’t have what it takes, in either my hands or my brain, to equal …
Fifteen Minutes.
The cafeteria was open but at this hour it was still very quiet and you could even hear a radio …
Two Bar Music Stories.
Myself and my editor James have both worked in bars from time to time and we have both run into …
An Edinburgh Office Telephone Conversation.
“Good afternoon. Shortbread factory. Steve speaking.” A man’s voice. “Hello… er… is that the shortbread factory?” “Indeed it is. How …
The Barriers: A Fable of Globalisation.
Dawn brought a fretful little breeze and Erastus Balloo lumbering along in his sepia hatchback, a car so undistinguished that …
My First Robot.
The ILIFE V5s is about the size of a cherry pie and it is twice as sweet. You put it …
Brexit Disaster: The Reality On The Ground.
You will know that my agency often sends me to work in one of Edinburgh’s ampler supermarkets. You might also …
The Big Black Man.
The big black man stood in the entrance to the bank’s cafeteria. He was emblazoned on a tall, free-standing plastic …
Empathy.
Erastus Balloo beat the traffic to be on the campus and in his office before eight o’clock. He opened the …
The Paradox of a Revolutionary Cup of Coffee
My employment agency sometimes sends me to a pub in the south of Edinburgh which is called The Buns. It …
Book Reviews: The Precariat and Rise of the Robots.
A thought experiment to warm up with. Imagine that Google was an entirely corporeal phenomenon, like the National Library of …
The End of the Fringe: Teatro Delusio.
This year, both God and the Devil, and all of the Fringe reviewers in between, have stressed the phenomenal skill …
