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Nov 9

Working Holiday

Posted by Colin in Writing on November 9th, 2009 | No Comments

It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to write fiction, but last time I did I had a lot of fun. I collaborated with Aidan and we wrote – difficult as it sounds – a humorous science fiction story called Working Holiday. The result was actually pretty good and was published in an anthology called “Australien Absurdities”. Now it’s seen the light of day again as an audio version over at the Dunesteef Audio Fiction podcast. They did a great job with the voices and effects, and I got a laugh out of it. They then to go on to discuss what commentary we could have been making about the Iraq war, which I thought was even funnier.

Have a listen here.

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