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Who would like this book? That's impossible for me to answer.
My husband and editor Ron leads me to believe it's a book for (almost) everyone. I would add the proviso: readers would need to think well of tales that have a ring of truth, of plausibility.Though the stories move along quickly, the interest in them is largely emotional.

Oh, just about anyone not fond of grief and despair (or vampires; there are obviously a paucity of vampires :)).

Hope you're right, Mark.

I write the sort of stories I enjoy reading. It's wonderful to know that others enjoy them, too.

These days of rush may well have led to increased popularity for Short Stories and vignettes, whereby the readers are rewarded by reaching the tales' conclusion before other commitments draw their attention away.
In 'Long and Short Australian Stories', the fact that the tales are of significantly differing lengths gives readers the option of choosing to read something that likely fits their available moments.