Q&A with Margaret Sharp.' Long and Short Australian Stories' discussion

My first response to this question is that I wanted to try something a little different from the 'Life and Love' series of Short Stories that we'd published during 2011.

I decided to try my hand at longer, more complex stories, partly as an experiment. I've tended to concentrate on vignettes of about four pages, so extending it significantly became a challenge: one I came to enjoy.

Readers may interested to know that I actually write the last story in this collection, first! I decided that I wanted to end off with its most complex story: one which an avid reader described as her particular favourite.