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Rob, you may be interested in this: lithub.com/read-mary-ga…
As far as your question about a "cut off date" for responses to George's query: The cut off date has come and gone! The list that's been put together was compiled using responses to the original post from George. Perhaps we will add more stories in the future to the list but, fo…
Rob, you may be interested in this: https://lithub.com/read-mary-gaitskills-sequel-of-sorts-to-her-classic-short-story-secretary/
As far as your question about a "cut off date" for responses to George's query: The cut off date has come and gone! The list that's been put together was compiled using responses to the original post from George. Perhaps we will add more stories in the future to the list but, for now, we are simply making corrections to the list as it stands (correcting misspellings and adding stories that were in the original threads but which were mistakenly left off the list). George can answer for himself, but I'm pretty sure this was just a fun exercise for all of us to find out the depth and breadth of this group's favorite stories and authors that have been, up until now, under read or under acknowledged. There's no official publication coming out (that I know of) that will list all of these. It's just a list put together by and for the Club. So, the list is done--corrections will be made and the list will eventually be sent out again with those corrections in place. If we ask for more stories at this point, we may be deluged! Again, it's all up to George. That being said, if there's a story you don't see on the list that you feel must be there, then let me know and I'll add it to the official Google doc.
Deluged! The very word. Noah hoped, I hear tell on reliable authority, for exactly such when he'd built and populated - 2 by 2, by 2 by 2, etcetera etcetera - his Ark.
I did say I was not trying to add but rather to confirm temporal boundaries Mary and I meant what I said (which rules me out as prospective politician 😂) Quite rightly you've genially ruled the three further suggestions I - sort of tongue-in-cheek - offered "out of bounds"!
But what a blast Mary, so many suggestions, some - a minority known to me / us - most as previously unacquainted with us as lumps of searing hot lava were to the citizens that perished back in the day when Mount Vesuvius eruptively disgorged the magma that had been giving the Gods indigestion for who knows how long?
So, I'm wondering, just what may be made of the fruits of this exercise that George has sown the seeds of and your have so adroitly harvested the fruits of?
I've taken the Churchillian route and am attempting to rise to the challenge of "Action this Day"... of at least as soon as possible!
Just three captures short of being in position to share 'Rob's Rough Cut Take on How to Create and Read a New Radical Short Story Anthology" (Absolutely, Ever & Always, Resolutely "UnOfficial")