Ruth Fay
Ruth Fay lives in Co. Kildare, Ireland. She has been published in Irish magazines and newspapers (poems and stories) and has also tried her hand at radio and stage drama. Some work has been produced on R.T.E. radio, the Irish national broadcaster. Ruth's ambition is to write the perfect short story. She is Anton Chekhov's biggest fan. Most of her inspiration comes from a notebook she keeps to write down odd and/or funny things she sees in the course of her life. Other inspirations are her writing group colleagues, her darling husband Patrick and her four fabulous sons.
Was published in -
Imagine Coal
and
More Micro-Fiction
Short Story Anthology
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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.
