Forgotten Dreams and Other Stories

By Colette Coen

Forgotten Dreams is the first print collection of Colette Coen’s work, bringing together material previously published in magazines and online. In the title story, Johnny bets his future on a horse race, while Sissy and Alec take a chance online in ‘DateNight’ and ‘Pictures on a Wall’. Nostalgia for a 1970s childhood is evoked in ’Five and Day’ and ‘The Empty Pillowcase’, while modern concerns feature in ‘Brightly Coloured Jewels’ and ‘WhatsAppening’. There is a dash of crime in ‘Platform Souls’, and a fairy tale, ‘Crooked’, where the beautiful princess is taken into the woods to be treated for scoliosis.
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Many of these stories have appeared in print, in various magazines, and some are also in Colette's Kindle collections, 'The Chocolate Refuge', 'Five a Day' and 'St Antony's Tongue'.

A judge at the Writing Magazine described ‘Lost’ as ‘a delight to read: it's chatty, colloquial, self-deprecating, digressional and entertaining … Colette's skill in managing the shift between humour and sadness makes for a tale that is compassionate and funny without a hint of sentimentality.’