#scottishstories

[nickadiguburke]

From my position on the green, the kids seemed normal, all caught in the distraction of their youth. But as I edged nearer I noticed how freakishly odd they appeared – their heads. Their heads were huge, and their foreheads wide and round, giving them a balloon-like appearance, a condition worsened by their receding hairlines and chins, which apologetically descended from their feeble underdeveloped jaws and wide mouths. And when they laughed and grinned, many teeth, tiny and white, appeared in those mouths, too many teeth for a human to have, or so I thought. And when they turned to look at me, they did so without blinking their large black, watery eyes. Eyes that gave them such a fishlike look... … Soon all the kids were aware of my presence - more large, black, watery eyes locked upon me, but with a sense of childlike curiosity, as opposed to any malicious intent. They began to whisper and point, and giggle, huddling into one another to do so. I guessed that visitors to Invermore were infrequent, given their hyper-sense of curiosity. Despite their inquisitive nature, the children seemed timid, reminiscent of baby deer, displaying the same cervine reluctance to venture nearer to their perception of danger. But, eventually they did edge closer, so slowly, however that it hardly seemed as though they were moving at all. #newbook #bookrelease #firesofbeltaine #newbookexcerpt #newnovel #newbookdrop #newhorrrorstory #suspense #supernatural #NickAdigBurke #mynewbook #occult #coolstuff #bookexcerpt #newwriting #inspirationalquotes #findingpeace #searchforhappiness #scottishstories #nuclearwar #nuclearweapons https://www.instagram.com/p/CjD2FT8qWZb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thepeoplesmovies]

2022 Year Of Scottish Stories At The Edinburgh Film Festival

2022 Year Of Scottish Stories At The Edinburgh Film Festival @edfilmfest #scottishstories

Ahead of the main programme launch tomorrow  for  the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The festival has revealed the impressive array of films and shorts which have Scottish talent or settings. All part of the celebrations around Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022. There are 10 features in the main programme, of which 6 are World Premieres. The previously announced Opening Gala Aftersun, the…

[theselkiesea]

A part of my Highland holiday book haul. I've started this one and it's so lovely. #scottishfolktales #scottish #scottishstories #currentlyreading

[honeyburn-books]

1950 Trouble In The Glen by Maurice Walsh jacket #illustration #McLauchlan #Scottishstories #oldbooks #vintagebooks #books #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B3pG68wJWG-/?igshid=1ujuqg68yoqk4

[thevelvetandsilkcafe]

A Special Report

Somebody in the high flats threw a big telly out the window during the night. It had flew through the air and landed right outside the close door. By the time I got ready and went over there was already a crowd out looking at it. The screen had smashed and there was glass everywhere. It was one of the old ones with wood round the sides and a big metal back. Me and wee Stevie McGinn heaved it upright so the screen was facing the front, but the wood at one side had buckled and it sat on a slant. Stevie’s big sister said whoever flung it out must have opened their window first coz there were no new broke windows she could see. Auld Mrs Love came out with a brush and shovel to sweep the glass away. She told me and Stevie to kick the last shards out of the frame so it couldn’t injure anybody. We did, and she pulled it all away with the brush and left it in a wee heap next to the bins. Stevie climbed into the telly and shouted ‘Welcome to a special report!’ We played with the telly all day. Everybody got a chance at being in it. Kelly and Clare Black managed to both fit in, then have an argument like they were in EastEnders. After we all got took in, the older ones set the telly on fire. They were all standing about drinking and shouting. My da laughed when I begged him to go out and stop them. I watched out the window as the bottom of the high flat and the garages flickered orange. In the morning it was just a pile of black ashes.

A Special Report is the first part of a short story written by the submissions editor of Thi Wurd, Brian Hamill. Anyone who dropped into the last Velvet and Silk Cafe event in Glasgow may have heard the brilliant reading from Thi Wurd's first issue: a short fiction magazine complete with illustrations for each story. This short story is yet unpublished and a preview of the great writing to come in issue 2.

[honeyburn-books]

1937 Folk Of The Glen tales told in the Smiddy re-told by Isabel Cameron. Lutterworth Press dark printing on a dark cover not a good choice but hard to find first edition - [ ] #antiquarian #illustration_daily #bookshelf #antiquarianbookshop #americanantiquarian #illustration #illustrations #booksbooksbooks #childrenseemagic #childrensbooks #books #illustrationart #illustrationartists #bookshelves #childrensbook #childrensfashion #bookstore #childrens #antiquarianbook #books📚 #illustrationartist #antiquarianbooks #bookstagram #firstedition #scottishstories #isabelcameron https://www.instagram.com/p/B5KdR6WpLXE/?igshid=3eoicgq9l9bm