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The Bells of Heaven (Eleven).

November 8, 2025

[Preface. ONE. TWO. THREE. FOUR. FIVE. SIX. SEVEN. EIGHT. NINE. TEN.] The previous afternoon Pablo had walked two miles with …

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Tychy @ the Fringe: Same.

August 14, 2025

“Same” is a new play that has been written by Aimee Samara and Francesca Di Cesare. It begins with flyers …

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Tychy @ the Fringe: Bucket List.

August 12, 2024

Imogen Usherwood’s new play “Bucket List” is small scale and student theatre but it is also wrapped in thoughtfulness. Luke …

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Tycienski Observed.

June 2, 2023

“Tell me about Tycienski.” My voice came so soft and faraway from the darkness that the night itself might have …

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A Pentland Demon.

March 7, 2023

[A Pentland Artist.] One afternoon Ann had telephoned me from over the hills. Her voice had sounded so small and …

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A Pentland Artist.

February 25, 2023

Today I shall write out something that I had witnessed many years ago, here in the Pentland Hills, when I …

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Eyeroll.

March 10, 2022

This afternoon I walked back from work to my apartment in Newington. There was a kind of blizzard of slush …

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Face To Face.

December 20, 2021

Amir was stealing around the bed, until he had reached where Reggie’s left hand lay very fresh and vivid on …

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We Pick Up Amir’s Story Again.

December 2, 2021

We pick up Amir’s story again outside a one-bedroom apartment in Warrender Park Crescent. Amir has lived here since his …

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A Scottish Highlands Ghost Story.

October 31, 2021

[It has become customary for Tychy to publish a ghost story on or around Halloween, but unfortunately the world has …

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Up, Up And Away.

November 22, 2020

Three days ago the whole house had been placed into lockdown. The students had been told that they could not …

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On the Motif of Hell in Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream.

October 14, 2020

[The following contains spoilers.] Has Thomas Hudson, the hero of Ernest Hemingway’s posthumously-published novel Islands in the Stream (1970), been …

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On Autobiography in Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream.

September 3, 2020

[The following contains spoilers.] Ernest Hemingway had started writing the text that would become Islands in the Stream in 1946. …

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Hopalong.

November 11, 2019

Sadie.

September 17, 2019

I have never kept a diary before. Or rather, not a diary that I have ever opened up to, as …

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