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?