Peter Meredith-Smith
Peter Meredith-Smith lives in Wales. On leaving school he trained as an actor, but never entered the profession. Instead, after short stints in various jobs (warehouseman, industrial painter & cleaner, roadie, assistant stage manager with an opera company, barman and oiler’s mate), he set out on a career in mental healthcare. Today, he works as a government adviser on mental health issues. When not writing briefings and speeches for government ministers, Peter writes poetry, prose fiction and drama. In 2007 he completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree with the Open University, having majored in Literature Studies and Creative Writing.
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.
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The Final Theory & Other Stories
Short Short Story Anthology
Price £6.99 (p&p £1 per book)
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.