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Once in a Blue Moon (short story collection)

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
2003

Pages
  
80

Originally published
  
2003

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Publisher
  
Acorn Books

Media type
  
Print

ISBN
  
0-9544959-0-X

Page count
  
80

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Authors
  
Magnus Mills, Nunzio DeFilippis

Genres
  
Fiction, Short story, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Magnus Mills books, Other books

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.

    References

    Once in a Blue Moon (short story collection) Wikipedia
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