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Scattered Little Pieces
by Wayne Fenlon
Flash fiction are little stories, oftentimes contained to a very specific word count. In the case of SCATTERED LITTLE PIECES, each story is one hundred words.
Readers unfamiliar with flash fiction would be surprised by how much can be told in so few words. It's like a challenge: How can the author tell the audience exactly what needs to be said with no words wasted? Even a step further, no words wasted because of the limited amount of words allowed to be used!
Fenlon's collection manages to bounce around from idea to idea with no real construct of a main theme or subject. Therefore, one story might be quite jovial or sweet and the next one will have a much darker tone. So readers would need to be prepared to make adjustments accordingly. For example. PAPER PLANES deals with self harm and suicide. The next story, TRAPPED is from the POV of an unborn baby. They seem unrelated at first but given the mood I was in from the previous story and transitioning into the next one that starts out, "In my darkest time I was aware of everything."
It works.
By the time I had devoured about 20 pages, the flow of these little snippets begin to feel like separate thoughts in a connected universe. Almost as though you're in a pub, drinking pints with Wayne Fenlon and he's saying, "And then this one time..."
And you're just listening. Enjoying a storyteller, tell stories.
Favorites:
PAPER PLANES
MARY'S LETTER
THE WRECK
MONSTERS
THE BOOK RESTORER
BORROWING
MARMALADE MAID
HIM
EIRA
FOUND
WARNING SIGNS
Readers unfamiliar with flash fiction would be surprised by how much can be told in so few words. It's like a challenge: How can the author tell the audience exactly what needs to be said with no words wasted? Even a step further, no words wasted because of the limited amount of words allowed to be used!
Fenlon's collection manages to bounce around from idea to idea with no real construct of a main theme or subject. Therefore, one story might be quite jovial or sweet and the next one will have a much darker tone. So readers would need to be prepared to make adjustments accordingly. For example. PAPER PLANES deals with self harm and suicide. The next story, TRAPPED is from the POV of an unborn baby. They seem unrelated at first but given the mood I was in from the previous story and transitioning into the next one that starts out, "In my darkest time I was aware of everything."
It works.
By the time I had devoured about 20 pages, the flow of these little snippets begin to feel like separate thoughts in a connected universe. Almost as though you're in a pub, drinking pints with Wayne Fenlon and he's saying, "And then this one time..."
And you're just listening. Enjoying a storyteller, tell stories.
Favorites:
PAPER PLANES
MARY'S LETTER
THE WRECK
MONSTERS
THE BOOK RESTORER
BORROWING
MARMALADE MAID
HIM
EIRA
FOUND
WARNING SIGNS