Pauline Masurel
Pauline Masurel is a gardener and writer who lives in Bath. Her short fiction has been published in anthologies, online and broadcast on radio. She is writer in residence at Bloom & Curll bookshop in Bristol and a regular performer with the storytelling group Heads and Tales. More about her work can be found at her website www.unfurling.net. She is currently learning fire juggling and has an ambition to write a story so short that it cannot be read with the naked eye.
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.