Sara O’leary

“The Ones We Carry With Us,” p. 46

“In this short story, which is about memory and truthfulness, the narrator certainly likes lying more than thinking she has been lied to. When I was young, I used to enjoy lying in innocuous situations, like when it was okay to make up a ludicrous excuse for why you were late. It’s the accumulation of detail that makes a lie sound true. And that’s really what my stories, and this piece in particular, are about.”

Sara O’leary is the author of a number of children’s books, including This Is Sadie. Her debut novel, The Ghost in the House, is being released by Doubleday Canada.