Chapter Thirty - A Dancing Bear

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Pressed for details on the location of Robert Browning's corpse, Fenton plays dumb. There is just time, before the story closes, for one last bad decision.

Chapter Twenty-Nine - A Dancing Bear

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The police call a halt to digging operations in Fenton's backyard. The Sheets of Shame, after extensive examination by the world's foremost analysts of encrusted organic material, are returned to their rightful owner. The mystery of Neville Claude Ag

Chapter Twenty-Eight - A Dancing Bear

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Fenton, packing the untraceable piece, enters the home of Robert Browning. A single shot rings out in the night. Gus broadies cravenly out of Fenton's life.

Chapter Twenty-Seven - A Dancing Bear

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Pamela Scratch briefly emerges from hiding to deliver some icky news. Fenton, having dismally failed to win her with lies, at last tries telling Charmaine the truth: about himself, about Gus, about Operation Aggot, and about the impending elimination

Chapter Twenty-Six - A Dancing Bear

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The manhunt for Neville Aggot takes a chilling turn. Forensics teams, abetted by at least one cadaver dog, commence excavations in Fenton's backyard. With around twelve hours to go till the elimination of Robert Browning, Gus takes delivery of the un

Chapter Twenty-Five - A Dancing Bear

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The morning after the unraveling of Operation Aggot, Fenton surveys the wreckage of his former life. A newspaper recounts Col and Smithy's botched attempt to liquidate the bus driver. A final operation - involving a new victim, a staged suicide and a

Chapter Twenty-Four - A Dancing Bear

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Gus and Fenton proceed to the death site. Rain lashes the Kombi. An axe and a meat cleaver gleam in the vehicle's mysterious rear. Gus, who is intoxicated, attempts to enter Lego's two-storey home in spectacular fashion.

Chapter Twenty-Three - A Dancing Bear

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The identity of Operation Aggot's second victim is revealed. Zero hour approaches. Fenton plays his last card.

Chapter Twenty-Two - A Dancing Bear

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: On the eve of Operation Aggot, Fenton tries to get a night of really top-notch sleep. But a knock on his door in the dead of night ruins his chances of that, and raises the question: who, with Neville Claude Aggot still at large, would be insane enou

Chapter Twenty-One - A Dancing Bear

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Gus tweaks Operation Aggot, finding scope for the simultaneous deployment of two two-man death squads. Less than twenty-four hours remain, he reminds us, till showtime.

Chapter Twenty - A Dancing Bear

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The fame of Ivan Lego bloats, and death threats continue to pour in. Robert Browning, turning detective, sifts through the evidence, and finds that it all points to him: except for the parts that point to Fenton.

Chapter Nineteen - A Dancing Bear

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The Maoists convene at Warren's bedside. The alarming extent of Warren's injuries is revealed. Gus unveils his revised death plot: the ominously named Operation Aggot.

Chapter Eighteen - A Dancing Bear

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Ivan Lego is lauded by journalists, deluged with cash, deemed a sex symbol, wooed by movie producers, and otherwise rewarded for publishing his wordless novel.

Chapter Seventeen - A Dancing Bear

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Neville Claude Aggot scores a scintillating solo try, then escapes from custody. The state's biggest ever manhunt since the last manhunt for Aggot commences.

Chapter Sixteen - A Dancing Bear

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The date of the bombing is drastically brought forward. The hardware is prepared. Gus quotes Julius Caesar. Fenton retains control of events in the only way he can think of: by volunteering to plant the device.

Chapter Fifteen - A Dancing Bear

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Newspapers report that Ivan "Empty Pages" Lego has received a series of death threats, which may or may not include the very polite sort of semi-threat issued to him by Fenton. Fenton, far from blowing the whistle on Gus's rapidly evolving

Chapter Fourteen - A Dancing Bear

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Pamela Scratch's most fervent political wish is granted: the most desperate of the TV networks screens "An Hour With Neville Claude Aggot." The show proves the most humiliating PR disaster, at least for the moment, in SNARBY's short history

Chapter Thirteen - A Dancing Bear

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The standoff over the disposal of Streetwise's corpse, which isn't getting any fresher, drags on. Fenton's dick, while featuring in an unconscionable domestic sex act, is almost snapped off at the root.

Chapter Twelve - A Dancing Bear

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The day of the terrorist barbecue finally arrives. Various methods of liquidating Ivan Lego are brainstormed. Gus laments the decline of the classical bomb. A surprise explosives expert is appointed.

Chapter Eleven - A Dancing Bear

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Fenton strikes a blow for common decency: he tells Charmaine that her boyfriend's a compiler of death lists. Following a tearful televised plea by the surviving members of the Baker family, SNARBY's campaign to liberate the man who killed the rest of

Chapter Ten - A Dancing Bear

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Ivan Lego's wordless book receives rave reviews. Robert Browning, having narrowly escaped inclusion on the Maoists' death list, suffers an only marginally better fate.

Chapter Nine - A Dancing Bear

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Some reflections on becoming (maybe) a terrorist. A death in the family. A barbecue, at which the finer points of the Maoist death plot will be brainstormed, is scheduled.

Chapter Eight - A Dancing Bear

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: The Maoists convene to draw up a death list, with alarming results.

Chapter Seven - A Dancing Bear

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: At a fiery televised event, Ivan Lego launches a novel containing no words. A feisty Pamela Scratch, unleashing SNARBY's campaign to liberate Neville Claude Aggot, threatens to steal the show.

Chapter Six - A Dancing Bear

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Encountering two key characters, including the girl he yearns for with every particle of his being except his digestive tract, Fenton exhibits disgrace under pressure.

Chapter Five - A Dancing Bear

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Fenton takes some sh*t from his housemates and their psychopathic cat. The clearly deranged Gus confirms his commitment to the perpetration of an as-yet-unspecified terrorist atrocity.

Chapter Four - A Dancing Bear

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Fenton's minimalist sex life is surveyed, tastefully. We encounter Robert Browning, haggard defender of the Western Canon, ideological nemesis of Ivan Lego.

Chapter Three - A Dancing Bear

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Fenton encounters Pamela Scratch, former childhood friend, current fiery radical, joint holder of a terrible secret. He sends her, inadvertently, down a new and possibly lethal political path. The life and crimes of Neville Aggot, multiple murderer,

Chapter Two - A Dancing Bear

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Fenton wrestles with his conscience, defeats it, and resolves to cuckold the Maoist kingpin. The work of Ivan Lego, eminent and impenetrable theorist, is briefly considered.

Chapter One - A Dancing Bear

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:00:00 +0000

-In this episode: Our hero, Fenton Bland, impersonates a Maoist. A campaign of revolutionary terror is proposed. A vast obstacle to his romantic designs presents itself.