In his professional and personal life Robert D Weed is deemed totally useless - or, perhaps, he is the smart one and everyone around him is daft. Robert is a human weed who is tugged and pulled by a world that wants to uproot him but which discovers that he cannot be so easily tossed on the compost. 'So funny I weed myself - geddit?' An author's mother Fiction/Comedy/Satire

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)...

Victoria Gousset, rich, beautiful, daft, and heir to an improbably massive fortune, has been kidnapped. Her father, mercurial underwear magnate Sir Hades Gousset, sees a way to make capital from the kidnap of his daughter and sets his own cunning plan in motion. Persephone Gousset, volcanic wife of Hades, discovers her husband's ruse to exploit his daughter's predicament and hatches her own plot to teach her scheming husband a lesson. The farcical collision of these events propels Victoria on a misadventure that takes her across continents and beyond, while catapulting the Goussets, their...