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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1639826" data-attributes="member: 5171">your father is: It's called "Injure the Corners", which I lifted from The Book of Five Rings.  I suspect it's the only one with a talking sword in it.  If it's not, then AS has very specific literary tastes...Cthulhiu's Librarian: Wow.  You found the Dreamhaven anthology in a library?  That's fantastic!  Since only a thousand of those things were printed (and I had to sign all of 'em -- euphoric ego boost for the first five, grim determination for the rest), I figured that one was effectively a "rare and lost" story.(As a minor personal note, the story you mentioned, "I am Looking for a Book", was written entirely out of spite.  A selfish guy in my writing group demanded that we alter our established lineup of stories so that he could get his story, which he'd written to submit to this anthology, in on time.  We did -- and it wasn't a very good story.  It was actually pretty close to the stereotype I was parodying -- evil bad guy in old used bookstore looking for tome of power.  And it was told from the point of view of a cat.  And then we found out later that he'd lied about when the anthology deadline was, meaning that he could have easily waited until next meeting to submit his story -- he'd just shoehorned his story in there because he was a selfish jerk.  So I said, "You know, I bet the editor is gonna see a ton of stories just like this.  I bet he'd like a parody piece. And heck, it ain't due for a week."  Cranked it out in two days... Gotta love that writing world.  The story you carefully craft for weeks over several progressively more detailed rewrites ends up in your trunk, and the piece you crank out in two days sells to the first place you send it for $350.)</blockquote>

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