Amy Mackelden
Amy Mackelden studied her MA in Creative Writing at Cardiff Uni. Now, she works in a bookshop and writes lots of little stories about boys.
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Discovering a Comet
and
More Micro-Fiction
ISBN 1-905599-46-3
£7.99 (plus £1 p&p)
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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.
Coffee and Chocolate
(Poems and Stories)
A Short Story & Poetry Anthology
Price £6.99 (p&p £1 per book)
Format: Demi. 108 pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-33-2
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‘I line them up in a neat symmetrical row, edges equidistant from the boundary of the coffee table before me: a work of modern art. Three times two hundred grams; three times a thousand calories. It’s day one of my week-long crash course.
Body Beautiful guarantees success…’
Extract from ‘The Conspiracy of Thinness’
Coffee and chocolate are goodly things, in turn stimulating and soporific and generally remarkably alluring in cakes. This anthology contains a mix of 31 winning poems and short-short stories from Leaf Books’ Coffee and Chocolate themed competitions. We hope you find them delectable and invigorating and seething with endorphins.
Derek and More Micro-Fiction
Price £7.99 (p&p £1 per book)
Format: Demy
138 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599363
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‘Susan asked him where he’d left his trousers, but he wasn’t sure. Although he thought he remembered leaving his shirt in the cabbage patch. She went to look and sure enough there was something there. She moved closer. A pair of trousers lay across two rows of Sweethearts, the early variety. She retrieved them and walked towards the runner beans where she found his shirt. By the time she arrived back at the rhubarb patch, Derek had left. His y-fronts, however, had stayed. She gathered them up and followed the trail….’ - Extract from winning entry ‘Derek’ by Gina Goodwin
The Leaf Books Micro-Fiction Competition 2007 was Leaf’s second stab at a micro-fiction competition and it proved no less successful than the first. Entrants were invited to submit ultra-short stories of no more than 500 words. There was no lower word limit whatsoever. The thirty-seven stories in this collection represent the pick of the litter. The subjects on which they discourse range from imaginary footballs to Viking funerals to naked astral-projection. The stories are brief and brisk and pointed and thirst-quenching, and reading them is kind of like being smacked in the face with a moistened sprig of mint. We trust you like that sort of thing.