Once in a Blue Moon (stories)

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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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)

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