Efflorescence by Miki Lentin

<p><i>Efflorescence</i>, a short story by Miki Lentin takes us into that time when a man bumps into a friend unexpectedly while on an evening walk, with surprising consequences.</p> <p><i>Efflorescence</i> is part of a collection of short stories released by Miki Lentin called <i>Inner Core</i>, published by <a href="https://www.afsanapress.uk/" target="_blank">Afsana Press</a> that is available to buy as an ebook and paperback with proceeds of all sales going to the refugee charity <a href="https://www.foodkind.org/" target="_blank">foodKIND</a>.</p> <p>Miki Lentin took up writing while travelling the world with his family a few years ago. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck in 2020 and was a finalist in the 2020 Irish Novel Fair for his first book <i>Winter Sun</i>.</p> <p>He has been placed highly in competitions including <i>Fish Publishing Short Memoir 2020 and 2022</i> and <i>Leicester Writes</i> and has been published in <i>Litro</i>, <i>Storgy</i>, <i>Story Radio, MIR</i> amongst others. Miki volunteers with refugee charity foodkind in Greece, and dreams of one day running a café again. Find him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/mikilentin" target="_blank">@mikilentin</a> or read his work on his website.</p> <p><a href="https://www.mikilentin.net/my-writing" target="_blank">https://www.mikilentin.net/my-writing</a> </p> <p>The reader was Francis Gilbert.</p> <p>Francis Gilbert has been writing fiction for many years. He is best known for his memoir, <i>I’m A Teacher, Get Me Out of Here </i>(2004 Short Books), his story of working as a young, incompetent inner-city school teacher in the 1990s. It was serialized as Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, and spawned a sequel, <i>Teacher on the Run</i> (2006 Short Books).</p> <p> His novel <i>The Last Day of Term</i> (2011 Blue Door Press) is also set in school. However, more recently he has explored more personal topics in his fiction: <i>Who Do You Love</i> (Blue Door Press 2017) is about a middle-aged man reflecting upon a university r