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From the Left
and More Micro-Fiction
ISBN 978-1-905599-55-4
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From the Left and More Micro-Fiction
I am Thomas. I keep my pills on the left-hand side of the bathroom cabinet: Paroxetine and Sertraline. I have Dermatitis on my hands. I rise from the left-hand side of the bed.
Extract from winning entry ‘From the Left’ by Olivia Rana.
OCD, a fish that blows bubbles, a woman who might lick your shoulder on the evening train and various other bite-sized gobbets of life. From the Left and More Micro-Fiction contains the winning entries from our 2009 micro-fiction competition. Our thanks to all who entered.
Winner:
‘From the Left’ by Olivia Rana
Runners-up:
‘The Rain Coming’ by Ruth Singleton
‘The Thin Woman and the Fat Man’ by Liz Martinez
Commended:
‘The Snake Charmer’ by Olivia Rana
‘Four Pillows’ by Liz Martinez
‘Flash Flood’ by Laura Tansley
‘The Swan’ by Ruth Singleton
‘The Hat’ and ‘White Chrysanthemums’ by Lyn Browne
‘Long Shadows’ by John Martin
‘Dreaming’ by Pam Pottinger
‘Alchemy’ and ‘Small Town Love’ by Judy Walker
‘First Day at School’ by Jayne Thickett
‘Orange’ by Amy Mackelden
‘Plague and the Earl’ by Anne Shewring
‘And Your Favourite Sculptor Is?’ and ‘Call the Father’ by Jez Noond
‘The Biggest Cause of Natural Death among Beavers is Falling Trees’ by Elsie Grace
‘The Gift’ by Dale Smallwood
‘Land’ and ‘The price of Tampax in the UK’ by Carol Rowntree Jones
‘Admissions’ by Ruth McKee
‘Heading West’, ‘School Trip’ and ‘The Truth About Saints’ by Jan Petersen
‘Heaven in a Cloud’ by Marie Gallagher
‘Housekeeping’ by Paige Sinkler
‘Reeling’ by Thomas Clayton
‘Untitled’ by Carie Lowther
‘Giving In’ by Catherine Irvine
‘Forever Blowing Bubbles’ by Claire Opie
‘Minutes’ by Emma Hardy
‘Prairie Rain’ by Cherry Potts
‘Fisherman’ by Clare Girvan
‘Empty’ and ‘Bus Surfing’ by Joss Armitage
‘Soaps and Reality Shows’ by Shirley Golden