Excerpt From "Cities of Refuge"

I put my money on Michael Helm for the Writers trust but probably because I can find comfort in his writing style. It's very different from Michael Winter's in that it hands you the layout of an image that you get to toy with. His writing is cinematic at a base level. He writes about seeing a woman through a security camera but my guess is that he thinks of things that way. Through a camera. I would love to be able to write a clear and precise 100 words of the things that I see on a day to day basis and I try to when I write shorts but helm is very, very good at it. He can give something as simple as "A clutch of Arab men speaking at once in a cigar shop on the verges of Chinatown." And we instantly have an image in our heads. Goes back to King's idea that writing is telepathy. The Arab men may look different and your edge of Chinatown may look different but Helm is sharing a moment with us.