  We discuss a scenario for the very faint X-ray transients as X-ray binaries
fed by winds from detached M-dwarf donors in binary stars within the "period
gap" -- the range of periods where donor stars have become fully convective,
and shrunken so that they no longer fill their Roche lobes, but have not yet
re-attached due to the systems shrinking through gravitational radiation. This
wind-fed detached binary scenario can reproduce the two key properties of the
very faint X-ray transients -- their faintness, which defines them, and their
relatively low duty cycle outbursts which require that they have low mean mass
transfer rates. We discuss feasible observational tests of the scenario.
