Alison MacLeod's top 10 short stories

Novelist and short story writer Alison MacLeod named her top 10 short stories for the Guardian.Her criteria and Number One on her list:Writing a short story is a high-wire act, sentence by sentence, foot by foot. Very few story writers work with the safety net of a plot conceived in advance. They trust in the humming tension of a single opening line or in an image that rises in their mind, or in