Ken Elkes
Ken Elkes is a prize-winning author of short fiction, a journalist and a travel writer. He's also turned his hand to sitcom writing and is currently working on his first novel. He wrote some poetry as a teenager, but it was so bad it had to be destroyed in a controlled explosion. When he is not writing or day-dreaming about travelling, Ken plays football and the guitar, though rarely at the same time. To find out more you could visit his website at www.kenelkes.co.uk, but don't feel obliged.
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Imagine Coal
and
More Micro-Fiction
Short Story Anthology
Price £9.99 + £1 p&p
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.
