Five a Day: Short Stories and Flash Fiction

by Colette Coen

Five a Day is a collection of finely crafted short stories and flash fiction by Colette Coen — winner of the Waterstones Crime in the City Short Story Competition 2012. The stories, often told in the first person range from the autobiographical title story, to an old woman talking to her son about their Christmas plans.

55 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 27, 2015

About the author

Glasgow University and Faber Academy graduate, Colette Coen has eBooks of short stories called The Chocolate Refuge and Five a Day and her first novel All the Places I’ve Ever Been. She won the Waterstones Crime in the City competition in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. She has been a librarian and literacy lecturer, but now works in a supermarket to allow time and head-space for writing. She loves Muriel Spark, Margaret Atwood and INXS. She lives in Glasgow with her husband and three kids. Follow http://colettecoen.wordpress.com for regular posts of new fiction.