Goodreads asked W.C. Clinton:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

W.C. Clinton I wrote the four stories in "two pairs of shorts" over a long period of time. I wrote the first draft of the oldest story in the collection, "Wintergreen," in the late nineteen-eighties; I wrote the first draft of the newest story, "Make Lemonade," in the mid-2000's. The ideas for the stories came from different sources. For example, I was heading a totally different direction from where I wound up going with "Wintergreen" - that story was very organic; whereas "Make Lemonade" was a response to a prompt from a co-worker. "Operation Eagle Eye" grew from my memories of the overall tone of a preliminary Neighborhood Watch meeting in my subdivision when I lived outside of Atlanta; I started writing it within a year of the second U.S. invasion of Iraq. "Respectfully Submitted" grew from an exaggeration of personalities and common points of tension in Unitarian-Universalist congregations (although a number of people who have read the story say that they've been at that meeting in different organizations).

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