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First and Fiftieth
and other stories
Martin Foreman

A Little Chat
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Michael Harth

Merle
Elsa Wallace

A New Man in Old Steine
Graham Robertson

The Physent
and other stories
Michael Harth

The Picnic
and other stories
Michael Harth

Queer Haunts
an anthology of ghost stories

Rid England of This Plague
Rex Batten

A Sense of Loss
and other stories
Martin Foreman

A Short History of Lord Hyaena
Elsa Wallace

Slivers of Silver
poems by gay men and women

Weekend
Martin Foreman
COMING IN 2010
Oysters and Pearls
an anthology of poetry by lesbians and gay men

People Your Mother Warned You About
24 short stories by gay and lesbian authors

The Sensuous Poetess
poems by Rochelle Imbiow Baker

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Cocksuckery
Ian Stewart


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First and Fiftieth

Martin Foreman


"Sometimes you sit, watch the trains, the sunset, the rain.
Sometimes you talk. Tell your story if you've a mind to.
Trouble is, memory changes things.
Things you want to forget.
Things you want to remember that never happened.
Happens to everybody. Gets so, nobody's story's true.
Not yours, not mine. But it's all we got."



"The youthful yet already impressive Paradise Press goes from strength to strength with their publication of Martin Foreman's collection of first persona narratives"
"each [story] contains a strong, distinctive and powerful voice, leading the collection as a whole to never be anything less than diverting."
Gay Times, April 2003

"engaging, told with style"
Gay Scotland

"Mr Foreman's style has evidently had a lot of attention lavished on it, not to mention careful study of the human race in its multiplicity of forms"
Tregolwyn Book Reviews

Martin Foreman's latest collection of short stories comprises first person narratives spanning the globe from Rio de Janeiro to Los Angeles, Africa to Nepal, London to Siberia. Men and women from teenagers to grandparents each speak in a distinctive voice and with intense emotion as love and sex, violence and humour, anger and pathos meet in this kaleidoscope of human comedy and tragedy.


Read extracts from the book at

www.firstandfiftieth.com



152 pages; £6.99; 978 0 9525964 7 9



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Martin Foreman was born in Dundee, brought up in Edinburgh and has lived, worked and travelled in many countries.

The author of two novels and two collections of short stories, Martin has also written many publications on HIV/AIDS in the developing world.

Martin's writing appears on several websites, including First and Fiftieth (the site devoted to this book), A View from the Edge (which showcases all his work) and God would be an atheist.

Martin currently divides his homelife between London and Bangkok.


Also by Martin Foreman
from Paradise Press
A Sense of Loss
Weekend
and a story in
Queer Haunts

from Lethe Press (USA) Spring 2009 The Butterfly's Wing