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Now available for a bargainous £2 is the fifth (point two!) in a series of chapbooks printed by Forest Publications: a short story entitled, Find it in the Dictionary by Fiona Morrison. For the June edition of the Forest Chapbook Series, we worked with the University of Edinburgh Creative Writing MSc programme, highlighting one poetry and one fiction writer, and produced a separate chapbook for each. Find it in the Dictionary follows the lives of a brother and sister, disjointed over the years by war, pregnancy, illness and the insistent trauma of the family dictionary. Here’s a taste: “dandelion, dan’di-li-en, n. a common yellow-flowered composite (Taraxacum officinale) with jagged-toothed leaves. [Fr. dent de lion, lion-tooth] It was the first word she’d looked up in the dictionary and the first flower she’d ever picked. How the white whiskers that floated softly through the wind were anything like lions’ teeth she did not know. As she lay on the ground to reach the mass of white flowers that strained upwards to break free from the edge of the towering cliff, she had leaned in for the kill and blown them completely bare. All except one. Her hair hung over the side of the dark rock, striving to dip its curling ends into the black waves, but it was given to the wind and not the sea as she stood up quickly with the largest dandelion – the chosen one – and ran home.” …Read more! Product details
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New Chapbook – FIND IT IN THE DICTIONARY by Fiona Morrison