Category: Fiction

  • New Deaths

    New Deaths

    I did have some food in but had thought to get in more – in fact I’d decided to learn how to bake bread and had none of the ingredients. But I did not say this. I told him I had run out of cigarettes and peanuts. I said this to appease him; I imagined…

  • The Lang Projector

    The Lang Projector

    Donald Lang only visited his wife on Tuesdays and Fridays. And like every Tuesday and Friday he was done up for it – a wax cotton jacket over a check shirt; tie a neat Windsor knot. His corduroy trousers ended where his stout shoes started. He wore a flat cap.

  • The Invigilators

    The Invigilators

    ‘There’s a lizard behind you,’ the boy said motioning with his head, but not allowing his eyes to leave those of Leopold.

  • Clan Wallace

    Clan Wallace

    ‘When they caught Sir William, you’ll remember, they lashed his ankle to a cart, dragged him off, bumping him through Berwick and the like, to howls and jeers, all the way doon tae London!’