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Wind Blown
A scattering of story seeds has been strewn.
Watch them grow into something
serene,
spiritual,
mystical, magical,
philosophical, psychological...
Warning: insidious fronds twist among them.
Memorable, often inescapable, microfiction ‘with impact’.
Watch them grow into something
serene,
spiritual,
mystical, magical,
philosophical, psychological...
Warning: insidious fronds twist among them.
Memorable, often inescapable, microfiction ‘with impact’.
296 pages, Paperback
Published November 17, 2020
About the author
Helen Laycock
21 books63 followersSHORT STORIES
Helen Laycock's short stories appear in a variety of anthologies, such as the Cabinet of Heed and An Earthless Melting Pot, in magazines, and in her own collections, and have been successful in many writing competitions. Her first attempt at play-writing secured her a shortlisting in Pint-Sized Plays in 2016.
FLASH FICTION
In 2018, she was commissioned as a lead writer at Visual Verse and her flash fiction has featured in several editions of The Best of CafeLit. Pieces have been showcased in Reflex Fiction, the Ekphrastic Review, Paragraph Planet, Serious Flash Fiction, the Beach Hut, and Lucent Dreaming – whose inaugural flash competition she won. She was longlisted in Mslexia’s 2019 flash fiction competition and her work has appeared in several Flash Floods as part of National Flash Fiction Day.
CHILDREN'S FICTION (MG)
She has penned nine children's books for 8-12-year-olds. She has been employed as a writer by an educational publisher and as a teacher.
POETRY
Pushcart nominee, winner of Black Bough Poetry's Chapbook Contest, former recipient of the David St. John Thomas Award, and nominee for the Dai Fry Award, Helen Laycock’s poetry collection Frame has featured as Book of the Month at the East Ridge Review.
Her poetry has been published by Black Bough, Broken Spine Arts, Folkheart Press, Prattlefog and Gravelrap, The Wombwell Rainbow, Poetry Roundabout, Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis, Onslaught, The Storms Journal, Popshot, Lucent Dreaming, Literary Revelations, Kobayaashi, Three Drops Press, The Caterpillar, The Dirigible Balloon,Fevers of the Mind & Visual Verse. Many of her poems can be purchased at https://www.facebook.com/pillarboxpoe....
She also writes humorous verse.
She has four websites:
Fiction in a Flash
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/fict...
Children's Author
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/hele...
Poetry
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/marb...
Tiny Tales
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/tiny...
All her books are available on Amazon:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Helen-Laycoc...
US: https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Laycock/...
She can be followed on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/helenlaycock...
Twitter:
@helen_laycock
Helen Laycock's short stories appear in a variety of anthologies, such as the Cabinet of Heed and An Earthless Melting Pot, in magazines, and in her own collections, and have been successful in many writing competitions. Her first attempt at play-writing secured her a shortlisting in Pint-Sized Plays in 2016.
FLASH FICTION
In 2018, she was commissioned as a lead writer at Visual Verse and her flash fiction has featured in several editions of The Best of CafeLit. Pieces have been showcased in Reflex Fiction, the Ekphrastic Review, Paragraph Planet, Serious Flash Fiction, the Beach Hut, and Lucent Dreaming – whose inaugural flash competition she won. She was longlisted in Mslexia’s 2019 flash fiction competition and her work has appeared in several Flash Floods as part of National Flash Fiction Day.
CHILDREN'S FICTION (MG)
She has penned nine children's books for 8-12-year-olds. She has been employed as a writer by an educational publisher and as a teacher.
POETRY
Pushcart nominee, winner of Black Bough Poetry's Chapbook Contest, former recipient of the David St. John Thomas Award, and nominee for the Dai Fry Award, Helen Laycock’s poetry collection Frame has featured as Book of the Month at the East Ridge Review.
Her poetry has been published by Black Bough, Broken Spine Arts, Folkheart Press, Prattlefog and Gravelrap, The Wombwell Rainbow, Poetry Roundabout, Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis, Onslaught, The Storms Journal, Popshot, Lucent Dreaming, Literary Revelations, Kobayaashi, Three Drops Press, The Caterpillar, The Dirigible Balloon,Fevers of the Mind & Visual Verse. Many of her poems can be purchased at https://www.facebook.com/pillarboxpoe....
She also writes humorous verse.
She has four websites:
Fiction in a Flash
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/fict...
Children's Author
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/hele...
Poetry
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/marb...
Tiny Tales
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/tiny...
All her books are available on Amazon:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Helen-Laycoc...
US: https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Laycock/...
She can be followed on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/helenlaycock...
Twitter:
@helen_laycock
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