Mary Cookson
Mary Cookson was born in Birmingham but is now resident in the North West of England. In 1997 she did an undergraduate course at Edge Hill University and then an MA in Writing Studies. Medieval history is an all-consuming passion for Mary – at the drop of a hat she will compare the advantages of phlebotomy over leeches as a prevention and cure for illness to the medieval mind. She has completed a novel set in the fifteenth century. Her second novel, set in the 1970s, is at the stage where she is itching to return to the middle ages. She has had poetry, short pieces and stories published in small press magazines, newspapers and Mslexia.
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Imagine Coal
and
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.
