Fortunately for us, Alasdair has gone on to capture the incident in our story today. Enjoy it or Get Lost!
It’s still Easter Week. And the world is still celebrating the centenary of Ireland’s Easter Rising of 1916. The Rising and the War of Independence that followed it reminded veteran McStoryteller Alasdair McPherson of an incident from many years ago when he travelled to California and met an old Irishman with a long-held hatred.
Fortunately for us, Alasdair has gone on to capture the incident in our story today. Enjoy it or Get Lost!
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Our abject apologies to G K Chesterton, but Dalmuir-born author and part-time sleuth Alasdair McPherson has decided to write Father Brown’s Last Case. As you’ll read, it’s a case of the poor priest having to get to the bottom of things.
Enjoy! We’re kicking off the McStorytellers week with a spot of time travel. Not with The Doctor. But with that other master of time and space, Dalmuir-born writer Alasdair McPherson.
So get ready to go back to the future in A Timely Intervention. And enjoy the ride! Our story today is a moving memoir from oor man in exile in Lincolnshire, Alasdair McPherson. Having attained Shakespeare’s sixth age, Alasdair reflects on his life and explains why he has never emulated George Borrow or Laurie Lee or Jack Kerouac.
Enjoy Running Away. Continuing our aliens theme from yesterday, here today is the latest tale from Dalmuir-born Alasdair McPherson, the thinking man’s sci-fi McStoryteller. It’s called Achilles Foot. And it goes to prove that even an invading alien can end up leading a dog’s life.
Enjoy! McStorytellers kicks off the week with the tale of a holiday romance, randy writer Alasdair McPherson-style. Somehow we dinnae ‘hink it’s Wummin’s Own material.
Enjoy Call Me Alice! Oor man in exile in Lincolnshire, Alasdair McPherson, kicks off the McStorytellers week with a conundrum of a tale. Paradise Regained is set in a future world where direct contact between human beings is forbidden. But is it a heavenly nirvana or a dystopian hell? You decide.
And enjoy! We’re delighted to close our week of stories with a gentle, coming-of-age tale called Invisible Man. It comes from the pen of Dalmuir-born author Alasdair McPherson. His contributions are usually a tad more acerbic than this, but the mellow fellow has just returned from holiday.
Enjoy the story – and the weekend! On McStorytellers today, Dalmuir-born author Alasdair McPherson questions why women are regarded as the romantic sex. “Aren’t you just a bitter and twisted old man?” we said to him. “Who, moi?” he replied.
Enjoy Romance Is Dying – and the weekend! For your amusement today, we’re delighted to present a brace of emphatically Not The Bible tales.
In Homesick, Dalmuir-born veteran McStoryteller Alasdair McPherson offers his own off-the-wall version of the Adam and Eve story. It’s Genesis, folks, but not as we know it! Then in Standing Up While Lying Down, our favourite American McStoryteller, Boston-based Michael C. Keith, introduces a modern-day, dysfunctional Adam and Eve. Enjoy! |
McBlog AuthorBrendan Gisby is McStoryteller-in-Residence. He's the author of four novels, three biographies and several short story collections. The McStorytellers
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