Sunday Short: Scratch 'n' Sniff by Lucy Butler

Sitting on the verandah, watching the wind come up as it does mid-morning late-summer, or is it late-morning mid-summer? (Here she is, impaled on a hyphen again.) Tanning her legs and flipping through a book he’d lent her late one night.

I'm really into this sort of snapshot short fiction at the moment. Writing that captures a really brief moment in a character's life and the rollout of that accordingly. Scratch 'n' Sniff by Lucy Butler is a really good example of that sort of writing, with a scratch 'n' sniff book playing a catalyst for a moment between two people. It's pretty lovely. You can read Scratch 'n' Sniff over at the Rag and Bone Man website.