The Red Door
Page 62
from Survival without Error and other stories (1970)
first published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London:
The Ships; Survival without Error; The Exiles; Close of Play; ‘Je t’aime’; Goodbye John Summers; The Black and the White; Sweets to the Sweet; Murder without Pain; The Adoration of the Mini; Home; On the Island; Joseph; The Idiot and the Professor and Some Others
from The Black and the Red and other stories (1973)
first published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London:
The Dying; At the Party; In the Station; An American Sky; After the Dance; The Telegram; The Wedding; Getting Married; The Little People; God’s Own Country; By the Sea; The Black and the Red; A Day in the Life of; The Crater; The Fight; In Church; Through the Desert; The Return; The End; Journeying Westwards; The Professor and the Comics.
from The Village (1976)
first published by Club Leabhar Ltd, Inverness:
Easter Sunday; Sunday; The Old Woman and the Rat; The Delicate Threads; The Conversation; I’ll Remember You; The Ghost; The Red Door; The Blot; The Vision; The Phone Call; The House; The Painter; The Existence of the Hermit; Fable; The Old Man; The Prophecy; The Letter; Jimmy and the Policeman; After the Film; Moments; Old Betsy
Uncollected Stories
Mother and Son first published in Alma Mater 60, no.1, Spring 1949; New Stockings for Young Harold first published in the Glasgow Herald, August 1960; The Scream first published in the London Magazine, January 1961; The Angel of Mons first published in Lines 19, Winter 1963; The General first published in New Saltire 11, April 1964; Incident in the Classroom first published in the Glasgow Herald, July 1964; The Hermit first published in Sruth, August 1967; The Long Happy Life of Murdina the Maid first published in Ossian 1968; The Injustice to Shylock, In the Maze and The Meeting first published in Lines 42/43 Sept. 1972–February 1973; Waiting for the Train first published in the Glasgow Herald, July 1974; In the Café and On the Road first published in Scotia Review, December 1974