Once in a Blue Moon (stories)
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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 who's head unscrews and which came in several guises. The narrator chose a policeman but received a schoolmaster....without a head.
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Only When the Sun Shines Brightly (1999) · Once in a Blue Moon (2003) · Screwtop Thompson (2010)
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- 2003 short story collections
- Single-author short story collections
- British short story collections
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