Please enjoy reading these very curious tales for very curious people.
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Love
Tim SmithTheir laughter isn’t loud. It is a lovely, moving event. They are gone quickly.
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Janssen Stand Down!
Noel MurphyImagine a place full of people making laws who have no idea what it’s like to be hungry or cold? That would be stupid.
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It Is What It Is
Noel MurphyIt is not a stroke of luck to be born where you were born. Everybody knows that. Think about it.
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The Fat Man
Noel MurphyThen he stripped to red-ochre painted nakedness and drank a bottle of gin to wash down a rattle of amphetamines.
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You All Know Who You Are!
Noel MurphyWhat she said added to my later tears but there were so many of those and their reasons flowed into each other so easily that I can’t distinguish their flow today.
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Kerrigan’s Streak
Tim SmithImagine winning the lottery. Then imagine winning it more than once. Meet Nancy Kerrigan.
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The Deep Space Restaurant Review
Noel Murphy“Bawbags”, she whispered. “Now what?”
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He thought He Was Christ
Noel MurphyA man, his cat, a burglary.
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The Dreadful Monsieur Loussiere
Noel MurphyI have since learnt that Loussiere, unless forced by circumstances to eat a morsel, dislikes consuming food in front of other people.
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The Flying People
Tim SmithThere is no peace for them, so there must be no peace for anybody. That’s their reasoning.
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Haring down the hill
Noel MurphyHe sat in the churchyard, feeling the fag packet in his pocket. He didn’t want to go home where all his relatives would have arrived in black, coughing into sandwiches and mini sausage rolls. They’d try tell him stories about his dad, pretending they knew his dad better than they did.
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A Rank Sandwich in Bolton – Part 1: before the Murder
Noel MurphyYou would never have believed that she’d been one of the first female pilots in the RAF back in the day, but she fell out with the military.