Alexandra Fox
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The Greengrocer's Apostrophe by
Alexandra Fox
‘This is a love song for my wife. Someone else would sing it better. But my love’s a silly, messy thing, the love of a daft old man.’
This could be Tom’s last love song for Linty. He met her when she was a small, strange, white-haired evacuee. She grew into a wife who turned the apples in the greengrocer’s beautifully, so each one showed its most gleaming side. Now she is a lost old woman with a soft face and faded eyes. How can he bear to let her slip away alone?
Winner of the Leaf Short Story Competition 2005.
The Final Theory & Other Stories
Short Short Story Anthology
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Format: A5 64 Pages
ISBN: 1905599293
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The Leaf Books Short Short Story Competition 2006 invited entrants to submit ultra-short stories on any conceivable topic. The upper word limit was 300. There was no lower word limit: entrants were free to submit a single paragraph or even one or two lines if they felt that constituted a story.
This anthology contains 42 winning, highly commended and commended entries selected by the Leaf Team.