I want your help on my first collection

Putting together a short story collection is harder than I expected. What’s all the fuss about? Just slap together all your old stories, throw in some new stuff, and Bob’s you’re uncle!

Not so fast! For one thing… does everyone really have an Uncle Bob? For another, I have all the ingredients for the collection (somethings old and somethings new)—but I’ve been struggling on how to assemble it. What do I include, and what do I leave out? What order to I put my stories in to achieve not merely a good representation of my work, but an organism that breathes with its own life, something greater than the sum of its parts?

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