Don’t miss the gripping final instalment of John McGroarty’s superb European long short story. Read Part Four now.
And if you want to read the whole story from the beginning, go to Part One and follow the links from there.
Just when our Spanish journalist is finding true happiness, when he may be making The Impossible Thing possible, a single phone call pitches him back into the darkness of despair. Will he ever emerge into the light again?
Don’t miss the gripping final instalment of John McGroarty’s superb European long short story. Read Part Four now. And if you want to read the whole story from the beginning, go to Part One and follow the links from there.
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After a week spent in his Pyrenean mountain retreat, our Spanish journalist returns reinvigorated to Barcelona, where he finds a way to make a difference – a real difference – to the lives of others. Is he about to find true happiness? Is The Impossible Thing becoming possible?
Find out in Part Three of John McGroarty’s superb European long short story. And catch up with Part One and Part Two if you’ve missed them. They say miracles can happen in Lourdes. But what about along the road in Capvern, the mountain retreat of our jaded Spanish journalist? Is a miracle cure waiting for him there that will enable him to cast off his demons and become a force for good at long last?
Find out in Part Two of John McGroarty’s superb European long short story, The Impossible Thing. And catch up with Part One if you missed it yesterday. Oor man in Barcelona, the Glaswegian writer John McGroarty, has sent us a stunning new long short story, which we’re absolutely delighted to publish as a four-part serial in the course of this week, starting today.
In Part One of this truly European tale, our beleaguered Spanish narrator escapes the high summer heat of Barcelona for the cool of the French Pyrenees. Will the fresh mountain air help him achieve The Impossible Thing? Or will this be a case of Chinatown all over again? Enjoy the trip! We’re delighted on this day of the Epiphany to publish the latest story by oor man in Barcelona, Long John McGroarty, especially so since it’s the tale of a modern-day epiphany set in his adopted city.
Apart from that, There Will Always Be Punctuation is single-handedly responsible for a renaissance in the deployment of the semi-colon in contemporary short storytelling. Aye. The Great Brexit Cabaret is almost over. But before the curtain comes down for the last time, here’s a blood-curdling contribution from the pen of Barcelona-based author John McGroarty. It’s the conspiracy theory to out-gobsmack all conspiracy theories. And, yes, you’ve guessed it from the photo – it involves vampires!
Enjoy The Secret History of the Fourth Reich. So what do you do if you’re a young female bestselling American author who is being plagued by a particularly destructive sockpuppet? Why, you write for assistance to your incarcerated lunatic uncle, of course.
Welcome to the mad world of modern-day writing – US-style. And welcome to Beautiful Souls, the latest madcap piece from the crazy mind of oor man in Barcelona, John McGroarty. Enjoy the visit! The American film director John Ford was one of Ireland's greatest sons in the Diaspora. The Searchers and The Quiet Man could easily be two of the greatest movies ever made. And, of course, there’s Cheyenne Autumn, Ford’s elegy to the Native Americans. Our double-bill of stories tonight are by way of a salute to the latter film.
First, Barcelona-based Glaswegian writer John McGroarty brings us All There Is, in which the narrator attempts and fails to employ Cheyenne Autumn as a diversionary tactic to head off a major shopping spree. Then Mister McStoryteller, Brendan Gisby, gives his memoir, Up The Indians!, a fresh outing. It turns out that a first uncomfortable viewing of the film became the unlikely trigger for his lifelong love of the underdog. Enjoy the stories! And go enjoy the movie! Glasgow-born writer and humourist John McGroarty waited until the year was almost ended before he sent us what we at McStorytellers believe is our best (and most topical) short story of 2015.
The Diary of a Deleted Person is the funniest and saddest piece you’ll read for a long time. Don’t miss it! #OutTrumpingTrump The following invitation was published in The Herald in 2006:
If you throw a stone in a radius of a mile around Byres Road in Glasgow’s West End, you’re almost certain to hit someone who is writing a noir detective novel. The question is, however, what’s going to give yours the edge? How are you going to break out of the formula? How are you going to do it? What will make yours different? Pray tell. And today McStorytellers is delighted to publish the considered response to that invitation by oor man in Barcelona, Glasgow’s very own John McGroarty. You’ll love Triple Indemnity. In fact, it's so good you’ll probably read it twice. Or thrice. |
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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