Once in a Blue Moon (short story collection)
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Author | Magnus Mills |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Acorn Books |
Publication date | 2003 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Pages | 80 |
ISBN | 0-9544959-0-X |
Once in a Blue Moon (2003) is the second collection of short stories by Magnus Mills. As in his novels, each is told by an unnamed narrator :
- "Once in a Blue Moon" in which the narrator acts as negotiator in an armed siege between the police and his mother.
- "The Good Cop" in which he is interrogated by one or possibly two identical policemen.
- "They Drive by Night" in which he is picked up as a hitch-hiker by a large lorry in which he sits in the noisy cab between the driver and his mate and attempts to make sense of the conversation.
- "Screwtop Thompson" in which he is a child and receives as a present "Screwtop Thompson" a toy whose head unscrews and which came in several guises. The narrator chose a policeman but received a schoolmaster....without a head.
The stories also appear in the later collection, Screwtop Thompson, published in 2010 by Bloomsbury Press.
External links
[edit]- The Good Cop online text
- www.bookmunch.co.uk