A widower reflects in Man Up. Nothing more needs to be said.
Enjoy your weekend!
We end the McStorytellers week with a new story by Mister McStoryteller himself, Brendan Gisby.
A widower reflects in Man Up. Nothing more needs to be said. Enjoy your weekend!
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It’s the shocking final instalment of Annie Christie’s Family Fictions today. Yes, there are shocks galore for the Olds family. Their world is turned upside down. No-one is spared. Do not miss Episode Twelve.
And if you have missed any of the earlier episodes, you can catch up with them by using your cursor to hover over Oor McSerials in the left-hand sidebar and then following the trail. Linlithgow native and poet Glenn Muir returns today with a cautionary tale about the radicalisation of animal rights activists and the meting out of justice to offenders on an eye for an eye basis.
Enjoy Pet-gilante! 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! Globetrotting Geordie writer Lee Carrick returns today with another instalment of his backpacker’s travelogue. He’s still in Goa, on the beach at Palolem. He wants to relax. But the radge with the chessboard won’t give him peace.
Enjoy Do You Play Chess? It’s time for the penultimate instalment of Annie Christie’s Family Fictions. And the tension is mounting.
It seems now that young Ellie is heading into real danger. But who should she be afraid of? Is she being stalked by someone or something malevolent? Read all about it in Episode Eleven. And remember, you can catch up with all the earlier episodes by using your cursor to hover over Oor McSerials in the left-hand sidebar and then following the trail. A writer runs out of fresh ideas for her next short story and goes in search of inspiration. A familiar tale for many of our readers? Well then, you’ll want to find out what happens next in The 300th, the latest contribution from the prolific pen of oor man in the USA, Michael C. Keith.
By the way, this actually is Mike’s 300th short story. We told you he was prolific! 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. 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! Here’s a lovely wee piece of nostalgia from oor man in Romania, Glasgow-born writer Ronnie Smith. In Brown Cord Trousers, it's a case of tough love back in the days when Gran was always, always right.
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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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