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It's 12 O Clock Somewhere: Midnight Somewhere (Johnny Compton)

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                                                                                     I've mostly avoided doing single-author collections on here, which is mainly so I can maximize variety. I love short story collections of every kind, but anthologies provide  which is mainly for variety. Short story collections are a shotgun shell versus the concentrated single rifle bullet of a novel. But even with shotguns, you have choke tubes, which concentrate the shot into a tighter group over a longer range . If a multi-author collection is open choke/cylinder bore (no concentration, with a wider spread), then single-author collections are like a full choke with a tighter pattern....