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It's probably more interesting (rather than the argument about whether these should have been published) to note that local newspapers carried short stories for publication. And while we have a multitude of publishing platforms, a local paper like that would have had a far more diverse readership.

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I was initially skeptical about whether it violated his wishes. I thought they found unpublished stories. Then someone in his camp posted on Twitter that they were early, previously published stories - not the unfinished ones he didn’t want to see the light of day. And that he had been making efforts to republish his early works in the years before his passing.

Still do, I think? Small local papers will often take practically anything, if it fills pages.

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