Once in a Blue Moon (short story collection)

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Once in a Blue Moon

First edition

Author| Magnus Mills
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English
Publisher| Acorn Books

Publication 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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* The Good Cop online text
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Works by Magnus Mills

Novels|

* The Restraint of Beasts (1998)
* All Quiet on the Orient Express (1999)
* Three to See the King (2001)
* The Scheme for Full Employment (2003)
* Explorers of the New Century (2005)
* The Maintenance of Headway (2009)
* A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In (2011)
* The Field of the Cloth of Gold (2015)
* The Forensic Records Society (2017)
* Tales of Muffled Oars (2020)
* The Trouble with Sunbathers (2020)
* Sunbathers in a Bottle (2021)
* Mistaken for Sunbathers (2022)
* The Cure for Disgruntlement (2023)

Short story collections|

* Only When the Sun Shines Brightly (1999)
* Once in a Blue Moon (2003)
* Screwtop Thompson (2010)

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