Bartleby in California
Chauncey Hare was a bespectacled and mustachioed Standard Oil employee for over twenty years, until headaches and peptic ulcers coaxed him to pick up a hobby.
Whereabouts
the place where somebody or something is
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A balloon, kicked into the air, lingers around the ceiling, and various family members lean over with an elbow or a fingertip, to nudge it back up, up.
A Christmas Card
Crocodile Tears
They were trying to make a famous man cry.
The Divine Hawkery
Hell isn’t full of flames.
Doubt.
On the first page of the first volume of Jon Fosse’s A Septology, Asle, a successful painter and ex-alcoholic, crosses a purple brushstroke over a brown brushstroke and accidentally creates a St Andrews Cross.
Mystery of the Idiot
A man wearing a bright yellow suit arrives on the last ferry to a small town in Norway.
How To Remember
An old friend, Joe, has been visiting from the other side of the world.
Playing Games
‘The age of the Feuilleton was by no means uncultured; it was not even intellectually impoverished.’
The Skating Ministers
Last week we watched a rerun of Mastermind, wherein a man wearing spangly, horn rimmed glasses was asked what the Reverend Robert Walker was doing on Duddingston Loch.