Ailsa Cox
Ailsa Cox is the author of Like Ice, Like Fire (Leaf Books), Writing Short Stories (Routledge) and Alice Munro (Northcote House Writers and Their Work). She teaches at Edge Hill University and lives in Liverpool.
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Like Ice, Like Fire
by Ailsa Cox
'We were each other's first and last love. We split up and got back together. We married other people by mistake. Now at last we were united. I pitied anyone who wasn't us.'
It’s one of those nights when everything seems perfect. Your true love beside you, you’ve had a drink or too, and are looking forward to going home together. But it’s Halloween, and everything may not be exactly as it seems. After one glass too many, the rosy glow begins to fade. Will romance triumph? Or will it all end in tears?
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.
