MacRoaster: A collection of Short Stories

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Yes.

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No he wears these Monday-Friday.

The decks come out when he goes to the races.

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Can we get a prequel to this story or will the tenth part of the story be more or less a prequel as macroasters life continues in a never ending cycle of roasterishness?

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Ya fuckinnn’ bashtard ya.

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As has mine. I’ve never done it as I cycle rather than drive*. I’ve left a six pack of Tuborg in the off-licence a couple of times though and had to cycle back to get it.

*I received notification today that I have a driving test scheduled for December 14th. I still haven’t had a lesson.

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The stories are not in anyway procedural. The stories are random situational accounts of MacRoaster’s life, I hope the subequent stories will add more depth and answer the big questions to the complexities of MacRoaster’s character.

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Peered

. Or

Veered. ?

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Self-contained episodes are definitely the way to go, mate.

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Cracking start, only thing missing from the service station segment was the god-awful automated “did you get petrol or diesel” announcement as he left the shop. ( I’m pretty sure this is a rural thing)

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Fucksakr you have had countless attempts at this type of humour over the years and failed miserably each time, and here you are trying to hijack @Nembo_Kid s moment.

Would you get fucked maybe

Great story kid btw, very well told.

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As long as I’m annoying you, I’m winning. :smiley:

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A roaster would have gone for a breakfast roll, but that’s only small complaint. Well done.

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You just know with all that red sauce in his car that MacRoaster loves a good breakfast roll.

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A stunning start, no doubt HBO and Netflix will launch a bidding war for the tv rights

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Replace Pajero with Landcruiser and Guinness with Craft Beer bottles and you’ve nailed it.

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:joy:Fucking shoulders shaking reading that as people were looking around wondering what the fuck I was laughing at.

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Fucking brilliant. He must be seething reading that

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Stunning writing.

Kid’s Ulster background is very much evident in the echoes of Kavangh’s Tarry Flynn. MacRoaster is not as worldly as Flynn but his imprisonment by the ennui of rural life is wonderfully reminiscent of the Monaghan novel.

And yet, rooted as it is in the despair of that Irish agricultural existence, there are global themes. Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Night Before springs to mind when we assess the mental state of MacRoaster. Roberto della Griva descended from nobility to his sorry existence. We witness no such fall for MacRoaster, he appears perpetually trapped in his own horrible existence, but Kid’s Italian heritage certainly borrows from Eco in his fantastic description of the eponymous hero’s plight: a man so devoid of spirit, courage and cunning that he is condemned to a sub human existence. And when we despair for his mental anguish we learn that is nothing compared to his miserably contorted nose. A vile specimen who earns not our pity but our contempt.

I cannot wait for the next installment.

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In a more contemporary context I think there are echoes of Donal Ryan’s recent works.

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That’s a belter @Nembo_Kid well done.