Tony Kytes The Arch Deciever

Both these stories rely on humour for their effect. As they are only ten and four pages long respectively, they take on the nature of anecdotes. An anecdote is a short narrative of an incident. Its particular characteristic is that the story line is simple.
Both these stories make use of a narrator who knows the people involved - one who says (or implies) at the beginning of the tale that he is going to tell a story about incidents which he is very familiar with - which he then does.

It is the same narrator in each case - the location is the...