text:  I really do. You know, I think with short stories, especially maybe a little bit more than novels, I think that they're a chance to have a lot of fun and play around and to explore what I'm thinking about. I start a story, I don't know where it's going. And I think part of the fun of it for me is finding out what these characters are up to, what they're thinking about, what they're obsessed with. Did you know where this was going to go at the end? Or was it like what you just described?