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'Alice's Bowling Adventure' Sees Light of Day Again

9/20/2015

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PictureAlice
Whether it's a first or not, I don't know, but my short story Alice's Bowling Adventure, which has recently been published in the Australian magazine Fast Fiction, could well mark the first time the magazine has published poetry.

Alice's Bowling Adventure (previously published in the Weekly News, in 2007) has been republished under the title A Big Bowling Adventure. Based on the Alice in Wonderland / Alice Through the Looking Glass books, the story includes several poems.

I wrote the story to encourage my kids to remember to brush their teeth (the connection with bowling would take too long to explain here), and includes the poem below about a toothless child called Nigel Neath:

Nigel Neath lost all his teeth
through eating too much candy;
he threw his toothbrush in the bin
and thought it rather dandy.

But now he cannot chew his food,
or else his gums get tender;
so everything he wants to eat
his mum puts in the blender.


Must admit, I'm tempted to write a few kids' poems again. Let's see what I can come up with!

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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'Marco's Last Hit' Published in Australia

9/9/2015

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PictureEmpire State Building Observation Deck
Another story I wrote several years ago (The Hit, published in 2007 in the Weekly News), has had a new lease of life as Marco's Last Hit, in Fast Fiction Australia's spring issue (it's spring Down Under, folks).

Set in New York in the post-war 1940s, the story revolves around families of gangsters and takes place in such exotic locations as the observation deck atop the Empire State Building and Central Park.


Can Marco ruin a New York don's life? Will he be allowed to leave behind his lurid past as a hit man? You'll have to buy an issue of Fast Fiction to find out.

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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'The Last Page' Published in Australia's 'Fast Fiction'

9/1/2015

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PictureAntarctic Camp
One of my old personal favourites, a short story titled The Last Page, recently got a second outing (it was first published in 2008 in The Weekly News) in Australia when it was published in the magazine Fast Fiction. 

The story concerns two scientists with completely personalities who are tasked with keeping their Antarctic base ticking over during the winter. Needless to say, anything that can go wrong, does go wrong.


The title of the story, whether I picked it consciously or unconsciously, is similar to my all time favourite O. Henry story, The Last Leaf., which I strongly suggest you have a look at if you haven't done so already.

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 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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