Mark Lawrence is an amazing short story writer. He manages to combine so much emotion and characterization in a compacted word length that the reader is left feeling like they have lived an entire lifetime, rather than just 2000 words.

During the Dance is very different than Lawrence's longer works of fiction. It is story about family, siblings, and grief. It is about the joy that one special girl give to the world in her brief time on Earth.

You can read it for free from Amazon.