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Forget Subscribing, Are You Even Reading Short Fiction?

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@Benedict_Leigh: "I like short stories - but don't like the form factor of magazines. I buy anthologies, and also read ebooks…"

Jul 18, 2008 at 00:52 AM

Service R Us

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@heresiarch: ""Yeah, but bbCode? Ew." Yeah--what's wrong with good old html, like our fathers and fore-fathers did? It messes me up…"

Jul 17, 2008 at 22:41 PM

Starting a Joke with the Punch Line

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@heresiarch: "I figured the joke was that "Fuck you, clown!" really was the ideal comeback in that situation."

Jul 17, 2008 at 22:09 PM

The Running of the Dozois

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@SoonLee: "At least you don't make a regular habit of googling yourself. Or do you?"

Jul 17, 2008 at 21:39 PM

Starting a Joke with the Punch Line

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@pnh: "Of course that joke is the Batman story by other means. "For criminals are a cowardly and rhetorically slippery lot.…"

Jul 17, 2008 at 20:41 PM

Down on the Farm

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@SoonLee: "Loved it. I for one cannot get enough Laundry stories."

Jul 17, 2008 at 20:26 PM

Forget Subscribing, Are You Even Reading Short Fiction?

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@SoonLee: "There are also writers who are better at (or write exclusively) either novels or short stories. I'd hate to miss…"

Jul 17, 2008 at 20:23 PM

Do You Subscribe?

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@SoonLee: "The magazines (and short stories in general) occupy an important niche in genre ecology. We'd be the poorer without them.…"

Jul 17, 2008 at 20:18 PM

Forget Subscribing, Are You Even Reading Short Fiction?

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@SoonLee: "I read both short stories & novels. They fulfill different niches; more characterisation in a novel, more experimentation in short…"

Jul 17, 2008 at 20:13 PM

“We are all stardust and stories.”

Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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