Rosie Garland
Born in London to a runaway teenager, Rosie Garland has always been a cuckoo in the nest. She has three solo collections of poems, widely anthologised short stories and has been featured in Mslexia and Succour magazines. Her first novel, Animal Instinct , is with her agent. She has an eclectic writing and performance history, from 80s Goth band The March Violets , to twisted cabaret as alter ego ‘Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen’. She has won the DaDa Award for Performance Artist of the Year, the Diva Award for Solo Performer, and a Poetry Award from the People’s Café , New York .
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Discovering a Comet
and
More Micro-Fiction
ISBN 1-905599-46-3
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Imagine this: coming downstairs on a winter's morning to find that someone has shoved a tiny comet through your letterbox. Unwanted celestial light has faded the dado rail and a montage of family photographs is all askew from the eccentric orbit that it's assumed, on an axis from the umbrella stand to the cloakroom door.
Extract from runner-up ‘Discovering a Comet’ by Pauline Masurel.
Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fiction contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ 2008 micro-fiction competition. From tiny comets invading your airing cupboard to still life paintings that refuse to come alive to, in Freda Love Smith’s winning story ‘Jesse and Jesus’, questions that refuse to be answered but ask you to love them all the same, it’s essentially just a bumper assorted collection of total brilliance.