Carmen Ali
Carmen Ali is twenty-two years old. She has a degree in English Literature from the University of Leicester and saw some of her poetry put into print in the university newspaper. She writes poems mainly about love, sex and depression; she also writes erotic stories and fantasy stories. She likes piercings, candles and walking in the rain.
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Coffee and Chocolate
(Poems and Stories)
A Short Story & Poetry Anthology
Price £6.99 (p&p £1 per book)
Format: Demi. 108 pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-33-2
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‘I line them up in a neat symmetrical row, edges equidistant from the boundary of the coffee table before me: a work of modern art. Three times two hundred grams; three times a thousand calories. It’s day one of my week-long crash course.
Body Beautiful guarantees success…’
Extract from ‘The Conspiracy of Thinness’
Coffee and chocolate are goodly things, in turn stimulating and soporific and generally remarkably alluring in cakes. This anthology contains a mix of 31 winning poems and short-short stories from Leaf Books’ Coffee and Chocolate themed competitions. We hope you find them delectable and invigorating and seething with endorphins.