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'The Conservators' Gets a Second Outing

10/20/2015

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PictureUncontrolled Pollution
My 1700-word short story, The Conservators, is getting a second airing in the summer issue of the Australian magazine Fast Fiction (yes, it's summer Down Under). A distopian piece of fiction, it first appeared in the 2011 anthology Alienology, brought out by the now defunct Library of the Living Dead.

The story examines whether humans, faced with a cataclysmic man made disaster, can ever change and become environmentally friendly beings - I think we know the answer to that one. It also looks at, in the face of an alien visitation, who the real monsters are.

Well, that's cheered us all up!

Below are links to my most recent Global Short Story Competition winning story, my short-listed story for the National newspaper (Abu Dhabi's annual short story competition) and another story that appeared on the Every Day Fiction site - where you can leave a comment:

http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/assets/october-ebook.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

http://www.everydayfiction.com/happy-dependence-day-by-paul-a-freeman/

Happy Writing!

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I Had my Cake and Ate It

10/2/2015

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PictureWriters Forum Magazine
Twelve hours before the deadline to the Writers' Forum's flash fiction competition, I started on a submission. Less than one hour before the deadline, with my internet connection playing up, I managed to submit my entry. Today, having picked my copy of Writers' Forum out of my post office box, I discovered that I'd won.

Since it was the first anniversary (birthday) of Writers' Forum's flash competition, apart from the story having to be exactly 500 words long, it had to begin with the words "X blew out the candles on the cake, closed his/her eyes and wished Y."

My story, To Have One's Cake, was written to mislead readers, begging them to re-read it. Apparently the editor of Writers' Forum felt I'd achieved my objectives. Here's what he had to say about To Have One's Cake:


"The story uses an old device (one that's often banned in fiction mags) but it does so confidently and without labouring the point. A more obvious reveal at the end would have ruined it. The story is neatly put together: everything is seen from Naomi's point of view; repetition is used well for minor characters; and it ends as it begins, with a cake. Ted's weight loss, although uneventful, is shown briskly in a series of scenes. And then, as Paul wanted, you have to re-read it in a new light. That shift in perspective has more power because Paul has kept things disarmingly simple and made the reader do the work."

Well, there you have it!

Below are links to my most recent Global Short Story Competition winning story, my short-listed story for the National newspaper (Abu Dhabi's annual short story competition) and another story that appeared on the Every Day Fiction site - where you can leave a comment:

http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/assets/october-ebook.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

http://www.everydayfiction.com/happy-dependence-day-by-paul-a-freeman/

Happy Writing!

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    Paul A. Freeman

    Paul A. Freeman is an English instructor working in Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. He lives there with his wife and three young children.

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