Rhinoceros 23Alan had been invaded. The noise was bad enough, the babble of laughter and pointed commentary from various rooms of his flat, but it...
Rhinoceros 22Lines of rain lashed dramatically against the window as though on a film set. Great bruised clouds, like lost planets, had descended on...
Rhinoceros 21 (Interlude)There was a time, perhaps apocryphal, when he had many of the ideals of the world draped around his wiry form. There were, undoubtedly,...
Rhinoceros 20This time he was some kind of inspector of chimneys. All the houses in a street of council built semis had various tall, asymmetrical,...
Rhinoceros 19In the strange realisation of being awake somewhere new, Alan blinked and scrabbled in his mind to connect his gloomy surroundings with...
Rhinoceros 18On a blustery spring day Alan pulled up outside number 23 and stepped over the familiar motorbike without tyres lying on its side and was...
Rhinoceros 17On the eve of Ryon’s release – not that Alan was counting – he met Jen in The White Lion. Already their relationship had formed itself...
Rhinoceros 16Alan had to admit it, after a long, long winter, spring in Sheffield presented a whole new world of possibilities. It wasn’t just the...
Rhinoceros: Ryon's story 21Sunday I had wanted to see Scopey again, but Frank said no. It was no longer appropriate, he said. I asked him what he meant by...
