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In a Grain of Sand

By Noel On 12th December, 2012 · Add Comment
Here’s a story destined for the 3rd volume of New Myths and Legends of Edinburgh. I’ve published it on a great little story site called Burrst. Like many Edinburgh residents I’m still trying to work out the point of the trams, and why the project is costing so much and taking so long. I think [...]
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Worth the Wait

Bloody Scotland and the Cheesemakers – Worth the Wait

By Noel On 4th September, 2012 · Add Comment
I’m extremely proud to have a short story in an e-collection of crime tales called Worth the Wait. The story, Blessed are the Cheesemakers was a shortlisted entry in a competition for Bloody Scotland, Scotland’s first International Crime Writing Festival to be held in Stirling on the weekend of the 14th September. Blessed are the Cheesemakers is set in the [...]
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The Great Al Fresco!

The Great Al Fresco!

By Noel On 30th August, 2012 · Add Comment
Need your post Edinburgh Festival fix? My second collection of  Edinburgh tales may be just for you. The title story, The Great Al Fresco! is based on a true experience I had as the unwilling victim of a street juggler. You can pick up your own delightfully digital copy from Amazon
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Rock in the Sea

A Life of Crime?

By Noel On 10th August, 2012 · Add Comment
I am dead chuffed to be shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Short Story Competition, especially as I am on holiday in Kintyre at the moment – hence the picture of a rock paddling in the sea. My story, along with those of my fellow shortlistees, is to be published in an ebook to mark Bloody [...]
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New Myths and Legends of Edinburgh volume 2 – The Great Al Fresco!

By Noel On 29th June, 2012 · Add Comment
“But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream” —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978): “Edinburgh” Released at last! The second collection of my stories and tales inspired by and about Edinburgh is now available. It’s in gloriously shiny ebook format for the delectable Amazon Kindle. To buy it and instantly begin reading (go on, you know you want to) click [...]
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Coming to a digital bookshop extremely close to you.

The Great Al Fresco! is on its way

By Noel On 21st June, 2012 · Add Comment
It’s nearly ready –  The Great Al Fresco! – New Myths and Legends of Edinburgh Volume 2. The editors have completed their tasks of uncrossing the ‘I’s and undotting the ‘T’s and now I’m formatting it ready for uploading to Amazon and the other ebook shops. It should be ready before the end of June. [...]
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The Bells of the Tron Kirk

The Bells of the Tron Kirk

By Noel On 22nd December, 2011 · Add Comment
Today is the shortest day of the year and it is also National Short Story Day. Here is my offering to the gods to ask for the sun to return. A little piece from a hopefully soon-to-be-completed Volume 2 of New Myths and Legends of Edinburgh. You can get it to read on your favourite [...]
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It's out there somewhere...

Edinburgh Cannonball Collector to be Made Redundant

By Noel On 28th October, 2011 · Add Comment
It’s not one of Edinburgh’s most well known jobs, but in light of the funding cuts – thanks Mr Cameron – Edinburgh Council is dropping the post of Edinburgh Cannonball Collector. You’ve never heard of the job? - and for good reason: we don’t really want tourists to know that at 1 o’clock every day they [...]
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Under The Tree

More books than you can shake a stick at

By Noel On 15th May, 2011 · Add Comment
Every May my wife and I make our annual pilgrimage to the church of St Andrew’s and St George’s in George Street, here in Edinburgh. We are not alone. Hundreds of people join us, and like us, bow our heads in concentration as we silently and reverentially slowly file around the church, inside and out. [...]
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Michael Moorcock in 2006 (pic by Catriona Sparks)

Elric and Phaedra

By Noel On 4th May, 2011 · Add Comment
I’ve just revisited a good article in the Guardian about Michael Moorcock. (When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock) It’s an intelligent piece with lots of good insight to the writer and his works. Moorcock was one of the writers I turned to regularly when I was reading sf in my teens. His imagery and ideas [...]
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