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Derek and More Micro-Fiction
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Format: Demy
138 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599363
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‘Susan asked him where he’d left his trousers, but he wasn’t sure. Although he thought he remembered leaving his shirt in the cabbage patch. She went to look and sure enough there was something there. She moved closer. A pair of trousers lay across two rows of Sweethearts, the early variety. She retrieved them and walked towards the runner beans where she found his shirt. By the time she arrived back at the rhubarb patch, Derek had left. His y-fronts, however, had stayed. She gathered them up and followed the trail….’ - Extract from winning entry ‘Derek’ by Gina Goodwin
The Leaf Books Micro-Fiction Competition 2007 was Leaf’s second stab at a micro-fiction competition and it proved no less successful than the first. Entrants were invited to submit ultra-short stories of no more than 500 words. There was no lower word limit whatsoever. The thirty-seven stories in this collection represent the pick of the litter. The subjects on which they discourse range from imaginary footballs to Viking funerals to naked astral-projection. The stories are brief and brisk and pointed and thirst-quenching, and reading them is kind of like being smacked in the face with a moistened sprig of mint. We trust you like that sort of thing.
Our thanks to all who entered.
Contents:
Winner:
'Derek'
Gina Goodwin
Runners-Up:
'You are my giraffe now'
Jason Jackson
'Imaginary Origami'
Amy Mackelden
Commended:
'Badger Play'
Gina Goodwin
'Backwards'
Jason Jackson
'Lee & Holly'
Amy Mackelden
'Heavy Petting'
Amy Mackelden
'The Crumb'
Catherine Edmunds
'Not a Good Idea'
Catherine Edmunds
'The Truth About Janet'
Sara Benham
'Picture Your Father Without a Picture'
Teresa Stenson
'The Tower'
Su Barkla
'Going Home'
Cath Drake
'And I’m Gone'
Jo Else
'I, Witch'
Jo Else
'Mountain Air Footie'
Don Taylor
'The Miracle'
Stella Pierides
'Callers'
Sue Anderson
'Fading Faculties, Fainting Goats
Jackie Sullivan
'The Long Not Yet'
Chloe Richards
'The Colour of Romance'
Sara Browning
'Doing Something'
Varihi Scott
The Silence of Sleeping with Him
'Louise McErlean'
'Unfortunate Noses'
Katy Whitehead
'Floating is Easy'
Katy McAulay
'When my third foot grows'
Nancy Saunders
'Bridged Perspective'
David Hallett
'We’ll Meet Again'
Laurie Porter
'Sailing to Valhalla'
Michael Massey
'Car Park'
Caroline Adams
'Cl2'
Matthew Mead
Signalling
'Amy Sackville'
'Looking Down'
Alice Blake
'Morris came in from the garden shed'
Arvon P Whitaker
'Queen of the Nerd Prom'
Shaun Manning
'Fading Footprints'
Robin Tompkins
'The Corn Carter'
Jane Rusbridge
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