Enjoy not only the story, but also the music described in it. Van den Budenmayer: Concerto en Mi Mineur was composed by Zbigniew Preisner for Kieslowski's movie La Double Vie de Veronique. Like the story, it’s hauntingly beautiful.
We’re delighted to publish today the latest short story by Glaswegian writer John McGroarty. The Waters is a poignant, beautifully written tale of migrant life in John’s adopted city of Barcelona.
Enjoy not only the story, but also the music described in it. Van den Budenmayer: Concerto en Mi Mineur was composed by Zbigniew Preisner for Kieslowski's movie La Double Vie de Veronique. Like the story, it’s hauntingly beautiful.
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Young Jack MacRoary returns today with the second instalment of his brand new McSerial.
This week in Big Brexit Blethers, Jack’s existential crisis is worsened with the announcement of #GE17. The future is bleak for him. Read his full tale of woe in Episode Two. Miss last week’s opener? Catch up with Episode One now. Oor man in Macduff, Patrick Hutchison, returns to McStorytellers today with a dollop of that famous Banffshire black humour. In This Is My Dying Day, a wounded soldier in the midst of the horrors of a First World War battlefield can still see the funny side of his predicament.
Enjoy! Having made her McStorytellers debut earlier this week, young Ayrshire writer Jen Hughes returns today with a wee slice of classroom humour.
See they detention classes? They’re Purgatory, man. Enjoy! We don’t normally publish poems and songs, but when the patriotic fervour comes over poet, writer and regular McStoryteller Roger McKillop, we jist cannae help it! So here’s Roger’s latest poem (composed, incidentally, before yesterday’s #GE17 announcement), which can be sung to the tune of Hamish Henderson’s Freedom Come-All-Ye. Enjoy! Let Freedom Cam’ Tae Ye
Roch their Warld in oor new day’s dawnin’, Blaw oor chains, “heelster-gowdie,” aw’ away, Freedom’s winds noo sae strangly blawin’, Through brave he’rts o’ oor folk the day! They’re thouchts that’ll tak’ nae thrawin’s, By thon rogues, wha wad oor Land betray, We’ll tak’ oor road “an’ seek ithir loanins”, Whaur Westminster will sport nae sway! Heed nae mair, “Wee, Pair an’ Stupid!” In boorish arrogance, let them craw, Oor weans, no’ brocht up in thraldom, Will mak’ oor land bounteous an’ braw. Broken faith wi’ this land they’ve herriet, Will rape, Scotland the meek, “nae mair, nae mair!” Jock Thamson’s bairns aw’ thegithir mairriet. Expose driech spirits, fell mean an’ bare! Sae cam’ aw’ ye wha cherish freedom, Ne’er thole propaganda’s croaks o’ doom, Mak’ a land o’ warm, honest welcome, Whaur Business, Bairns an’ Beauty bloom! When the Scots greet Warld in friendship, These truths we’ll proudly preach an’ groom, When “Man tae Man” can aw’ bide as brithirs, “Dings the fell gallows o’ their burghers doom! Jack’s back! And he’s bigger and bolder than before. Yes, Jack MacRoary, the Bard of DrumTumshie, returns today with the opening episode of his brand new McSerial, Big Brexit Blethers.
Jack is sixteen now. Important exams at DrumTumshie Academy are looming, as is an uncertain post-Brexit future, and he has some life-changing decisions to make. Read the full story in Episode One. And get yourself back here every Wednesday for much more of Jack’s canny wisdom. Aspiring young Ayrshire writer Jen Hughes makes her McStorytellers debut today with a moving and sadly all-too-familiar tale of the abuse of an innocent.
Enjoy About A Girl. And watch out for more coming from this talented newcomer. Here’s a wee Easter Monday treat from McStorytellers. In her latest short story written in Scots, Gonnae No Dae That, the normally vocal Cally Phillips promises to stay silent from now on until Scotland regains her land, her language (sorry, leid) and her independence.
And if you enjoy the story, you might want to nip over to the unco online bookstore for more like it in That’s No You, the recently published paperback compilation of all Cally’s stories in Scots. Highly recommended by McStorytellers! To mark the anniversary of the death of Scotland's Forgotten Bestseller, S. R. Crockett, on this day 103 years ago, we are delighted to reproduce one of his short stories set in Europe. While on a walking tour of Normandy in the late nineteenth century, Crockett and his travelling companion come across a strange entity whom they dub The Impartial Hand.
Enjoy the story. And afterwards get yourself over to The Galloway Raiders if you want to find out more about Crockett and his work. Meanwhile, we’ll leave you with this quote from the story: We were gentlemen of Scotland travelling for our pleasure. This we stuck to wherever we went, and to our profit. For the memory of the Auld Alliance is not yet dead in French hearts, and at least anything is better than to proclaim oneself English. A case of back to the future, perhaps? We’re delighted to bring you today the latest in the series of stories written by award-winning poet and novelist Sara Clark in her capacity as writer-in-residence at the Damascus Drum Café in Hawick.
Table 2 is a beautifully written, wistful tale of an elderly lady’s fading memory of a romance that failed to bloom. 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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