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Imagine Coal
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More Micro-Fiction
Short Story Anthology
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Format: Demi 82 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-42-4
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The Woman with a Coffee Pot opposite me is so ugly with her work-a-day blue dress. Without rest I have to stare into her large, thick, round face, so like my own mother: the stern gaze, the bulbous nose. She is admired. Cezanne kept her. I am a working girl fresh from the fields, so blotted out.
‘You are the invisible form of my composition,’ he said.
– Extract from ‘Imagine Coal’ by Mary Cookson
Imagine Coal and More Micro-Fiction contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ second micro-fiction competition of 2007. The thirty-one tiny fragments of wonderfulness within very concisely discourse on a fantastic variety of subjects, from artists’ models to attempted matricide via alien invasions, dancing GIs and elderly men with aphasia.Winner
‘Imagine Coal’ by Mary Cookson
Runner up
‘Moving House’ by Anne Youngson
Commended
‘Toothbrushes’ by Mary Cookson
‘The Writing on the Wall’ by Anne Youngson
‘Fish’ by Una Corbett
‘Ten Past Five’ by Robert Warrington
‘Whisky and Cigarettes’ by Sara Benham
‘The Man and the Pea Ball Chain’ by Frederick Mugford
‘Acquiring Wisdom’ by Suzanne Weichhart
‘Outside the Station’ by Lauren Huxley-Blythe
‘Letter to Bridget’ by Lyn Browne
'Fallen Fruit' by Ken Elkes
'The Alien Prisoner's Dilemma' by Rich Hough
'The Affluence of Incohol' by Jo Horsman
'The Woman Who Starts Accidents' by Jo Horsman
'Memoir 101' by Lockie Hunter
'Love' by Morag Edward
'A Strong Hand' by Sarah Dunnakey
'Spilt Milk' by Ruby Radburn
'Pop-Lockin'' by Marie Gallagher
'Drowning Mother' by Ruth Fay
'A Space of Waste' by Shirley Golden
'Entertaining the Idea' by Shirley Golden
'Illumination' by Shirley Golden
'A Problem Shared' by Helen Pizzey
'Velcro' by Emma Dewhurst
'Nape' by Lorraine Cave
'Pineapple' by Lorraine Cave
'Missing' by Lorraine Cave
'Three Times by Water' by Ailsa Cox
'RIP' by Christine Todd
'Gingerbread Mum' by Anne Shewring
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