The Last Thing the Author Said: Writing by Nick Sweeney
  • First Thing
  • A Blue Coast Mystery, Almost Solved
  • Out in 2021
  • Interview, June 2020
  • Out in 2020
  • Out in 2019
  • The Exploding Elephant
  • Out in 2018
  • Out in Autumn - Winter 2017
  • Published in 2017
  • Laikonik Express
    • Laikonik Express on Kindle
    • Laikonik Express: cultural baggage
    • Reviews of Lakonik Express
    • Laikonik Express - origins
    • Laikonik Express film
    • Laikonik Express on Resonance FM - soundscapes with Johny Brown and the Band of Holy Joy
  • Short stories and tall tales
    • The Boy at the Bus Stop
    • End-User of Ordinance
    • Fast in the Life Lane
    • Wojtek and the Commissar
    • Wheel
  • Published in 2013
  • Out in 2014
    • Man Seeks Dog
    • Andabatae
    • The Place of the Dead
  • Out in 2015/2016
  • My works-in-progress
    • A gothic American tale
    • Angelika and the Forgers
    • Cleopatra's Script
  • Last Thing Blog

The Pitch - in Ambit 207

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A man tries to do a good deed, with perplexing results. A buskers' pitch in a park, a rare guitar, a rarer guitar player, a ghostly tune that is 3/4 and 4/4, major and minor, whose verse becomes its chorus... and a glimpse of a different world in between the notes.

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