The Long & The Short of It
Paul Budd
A rich and wide-ranging collection of short stories exploring memory, identity, love and loss.
From quiet moments of everyday life to dark, unsettling encounters, these stories trace the fragile threads that connect us—across families, relationships and the passing of time.
Set in familiar landscapes and grounded in recognisable human experience, the collection draws its strength from the ordinary. Beneath the surface of daily life, these stories reveal the emotional complexities that shape who we are—moments of connection and disconnection, of memory and forgetting, of what is spoken and what remains unsaid.
Moving between the tender and the ambiguous, the reflective and the uncanny, this collection offers a thoughtful and humane portrait of lives lived in all their subtlety and contradiction. These are stories that invite the reader to pause, to reflect, and to recognise something of themselves in the lives they encounter.
Publication details
Paperback ISBN: : 978-1-911323-25-9
eBook ISBN: 978-1-911323-26-6
Publication date: 21 May 2026
