Un-Tall Tales - Paperback

by Chris Page (Author)

A collection of short fiction, by Chris Page, author of the novel Weed.The Freebie (short story)Billy Freeb's fifteen minutes are upon him. Will he survive?Poems (poetry)Will literary sensibility survive?Cats Die (short story)Our hero decides to combat the crisis of middle age by having an affair with a teenage girl. Will he survive?Dumb Novel (short story)Our hero achieves literary fame for a book he didn't write. Will he survive?Escapology (short story)On a whim, the hero is chained, locked in a box and dropped through the Arctic ice cap. Will he survive?Bog (blog extracts)Bloggy rumination on sausages and twigs. Will the human attention span survive?

Author Biography

Chris Page was born in Sweden in 1962, and brought up in Gloucestershire in the UK. He has lived in London, New York, and, since 1989, in Japan with his Japanese wife and three kids and big, fat cat. Chris is the author of the novel Weed, available in paperback and ebook formats, and short story collections Shorts (ebook only) and Un-Tall Tales (paperback only). In July 2002 The London Magazine featured the short story The Freebie, which is included in both Shorts and Un-Tall Tales. When not startling the literary world with his fiction, he is the publisher and editor of Kansai Scene magazine, based in Osaka. His non-fiction work has appeared in The Guardian, The London News Review, Kansai Scene, Tokyo Scene, The Gloucester Citizen, Kansai Time Out and various non-commercial publications and web sites.