Goodreads asked Wayne Smallman:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Wayne Smallman Remembrance, a novella, came from a simple scene that sprung into being while I was out running.

I think it was, in part, derived from the scene in the movie Stand By Me, where the children stood over the corpse of the young man.

But the scene I had was different, in that it was a grave, and there were only two people.

As I began to think more about it, more began to emerge and the whole story self-assembled in a week or so.

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