Slice of Life

Ditmar Award 2010, Aurealis Award nominee 2009.

Paul Haines sliced through the Australian writing scene with his twisted and murderous black humour in 2002. He has since won many awards and praise for his dark and surreal stories. Paul places himself in stories that make you think twice about his sanity and good taste: ‘Explicit, violent, misogynistic and nasty... stories are heavily cemented in my real life, and I love blurring them into the unreal’.

Contents:

• The Very Talented Mr Haines by Geoffrey Maloney
• Introduction
• Slice of Life
• The Devil in Mr Pussy (or How I Found God Inside My Wife)
• Mnemophonic
• This Is the End, Harry, Good Night!
• (It's Not Like) The Good Old Days
• Going Down with Jennifer Aniston's Breasts
• The Punjab's Gift
• Failed Experiments from the Frontier: The Pumpkin
• Slice of Life - Cooking for the Heart
• Inducing
• Lifelike and Josephine
• Yum Cha
• A Tale of the Interferers: Necromancing the Bones
• Shot in Loralai
• Doof Doof Doof
• Where Is Brisbane, and How Many Times Do I Get There?
• Slice of Life - A Spot of Liver