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Everett Upright's avatar

Love this. 9/10 people (including me) would have imposed arbitrary, unhelpful, whimsy-destroying categories to hold a collection like this as a way to self-soothe anxiety. You definitely made the right call.

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Joe's avatar

Jimmy, you are impressive.

Obviously, that can be said of many, but out of the ordinary, come the extraordinary.

Something I meant to do when I first began reading your works, but failed from the get-go, was to catalogue each of your stories.

You are correct when you claim they almost defy categorizing, but since we live in a digital age, we can easily create a compendium by date written, age (juvenile, teen, mature, NSF), subject matter (human interest, lifestyle, choices, struggles) nature, etc.

Naturally, some lists would be longer than others, but the reader could choose, based on their choices to create a list - even a random order list, aka by date!

I wouldn't advise you trying this yourself, as you have enough on your plate already - just keep cranking them out and let the historians collect and order the chips where they have fallen. Those 'guys' are the experts on lists!

You definitely get the award for Most Prolific Short Story Writer.

Congratulations and All the Best for the next 877!

ps: don't discount this "A Note from Me" as it is a story on it's own and would make a great forward to one of your books

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