Sudbury author publishes short stories

For Sudbury's Vera Constantineau, sometimes simply overhearing a line can be a source of inspiration.

Constantineau recently published a book of short stories called Daisy Chained.

She says the stories are all fiction, but some arebased on something she overheard.

"I wrote an entire story from one sentence that I heard at a restaurant once," she said.

The sentence she overheard? "Have you heard about Margaret?"

The title of her book, Daisy Chained, is also based on a line she wrote in the novel. In that story, one woman asks another why she doesn't leave a bad relationship. The response was she was 'tied to him with a daisy chain.'

"That line stuck with me for a long, long time," she said.

"It says how fragile a relationship is and it also says how hard it is to leave when a relationship goes south."

Constantineau says she started writing in her late teens when she focused on writing poetry.

"Then I moved into short stories," she said.

"After that I took some poetry courses and then I got a humour column because I entered a contest about something funny and it was taken."

She will be hosting a book signing at Chapters on Saturday, March 10 from 12 to 4pm.