The Power of Microfiction - Tiny Nightmares

This might have concerned me a while back, but I now understand that there are ways to write horror or darker fiction using a much shorter creative form, microfiction. Honestly, I did not think it was possible for anyone to create a work of so few words that could successfully scare me or at the minimum make me feel deeply uncomfortable until I picked up the book Tiny Nightmares, Very Short Stories of Horror, edited by Lincoln Mitchell and Natsili Nyadokatapult, 2020. Reading that book helped to plant the seed in my mind of how the right tiny group of words could have the effect of deeply unsettling a reader.