Once in a Blue Moon (short story collection) explained
Once in a Blue Moon |
Author: | Magnus Mills |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Acorn Books |
Release Date: | 2003 |
Media Type: | Print |
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.
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