I was in Senegal from 1995 to 1996. The idea for Shorts and Teas began there when a missionary family traditionally enjoyed tea in the backyard every day. Shorts are a pun on short stories and wearing shorts, while teas is a play on T-shirts and sipping tea. The genre is very new if not entirely original. How easy would it be for the reader to enjoy eight to twelve pages of a story each day! These shorts mostly contain characters that are unique and often filled with much heartache and redemption, often in incongruent ways.