“This story made it into the recently released Best British Short Stories, and deservedly so. This brief tale of isolation and connection and the dangers of both is compelling reading and has me eager to read more of Louise Palfreyman’s work.”
— Dan Powell
“...a single, memorable image...’”
— Alan Beard
“‘Time and again, in Royle’s crafty editorial hands, closely observed normality yields… to the things we “cannot control”.’”
Flash Fiction Festival One - Seventy-four micro-fictions written by presenters and participants at the first ever literary festival entirely dedicated to flash fiction