Helen Laycock

SMALL can be beautiful, and, in writing with space limitation, i.e. microfiction, powerful.

It may seem to non-writers that writing very little is easy. In fact, many writers would agree that it’s one of the more difficult disciplines.

As stories are concocted, details swarm. There is setting, characterisation and plot to contend with, and that’s not including such components as back story, or dialogue, for instance.

In microfiction, every word counts. Even the punctuation is important in creating timing or suspense.

Each piece of microfiction in WIND BLOWN was inspired by the tiniest seed – mostly, one word; in a few cases, a photograph. The original order was random, but I have gathered them into themes. Although they sometimes appear like scenes from the same longer story, they are not.

Each is around 280 characters long.

I hope that you will see the larger story in each tiny tale, and feel the impact of each one.