OKAY HEAR ME OUT:
What I mean is that, for some reason, and I still don’t know why, I continually struggle to read short story collections/anthologies. Even when it’s a collection of short stories by an author I love, I still hit this weird mental block where I just…can’t seem to get the traction to read the whole collection?
And as someone who’s a bit of a completionist, I *want* to read a whole collection of, say, Gene Wolfe short stories, or Flannery O’Connor short stories, or an anthology of classic SF stories; and yet – and fucking yet – I can’t seem to do it.
Now with large tomes? Not an issue, fam. Oh, your fantasy novel runs >1,000 pages? I gotchu. I will read it cover to cover and maybe stick around for the obligatory fantasy novel appendices. Big books don’t intimidate me. If your book could fall off a shelf and cause fatal damage to any nearby children, and possibly register on a seismograph, that’s my *jam*.
But a collection of curated short fiction, the creme de la creme, all in a relatively short, concentrated burst of goodness? [The stars are never in position. Stars. Can’t do it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4O7oL3RsaM)
Is this just my stupid goblin brain? Am I the only one? Any advice as to how to remedy this bizarre reading blindspot?
by jaythejayjay
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You missed, “cap,” “sus,” and “frfr” in your quest to use all the hip lingo of today’s kids in your post.