About this Book

Un-Tall Tales is a collection of short fiction, poetry, flash fiction and odds and ends by Chris Page. 

In ‘The Freebie’, musical wannabe Billy Freeb’s fifteen minutes are upon him. Will he survive? 

The poems explore underpants, teeth, chickens, and tombstones. Will literary sensibility survive? 

‘Cats Die’ relates how our hero decides to combat the crisis of middle age by having an affair with a teenage girl. Will he survive? 

The hero of ‘Dumb Novel’ achieves literary fame for a book he didn’t write. Will he survive? 

‘Escapology’ — on a whim, the hero has himself chained, locked in a box and dropped through a hole drilled in the Arctic ice cap. Will he survive? 

‘Bog’ is a bloggy rumination on sausages and twigs. Will the human attention span survive?