Anatomy of a story: When The Birds Go Quiet, by Noémi Scheiring-Oláh

Anatomy of a story: When The Birds Go Quiet By Noémi Scheiring-Oláh

What makes a story great? That’s a question that spools outwards through the ephemeral and infinite wisps of existence and is as unanswerable as the question of why is the sun.

But that’s not gonna stop us trying to work it out! In this shiny new series, we deconstruct our fave stories to see if we can figure out how they’re so goddamn good and if we can apply any lessons to our own writing. So. Let’s nerd out, story gang…

This month we’re looking at When the Birds Go Quiet by (awesome WHQ member!) Noémi Scheiring-Olah. A small but mighty flash, packing a novel’s worth of gut-punch into just 400 words, telling the story of two girls who take to the woods to avenge their mother.

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