Most of the time I was comfortable working with editors and considering them to be on my side, but there had been talk of reprinting my *Weird Tales* sale, "Ghost Dance," in the local semiprozine, *Tales of the Unanticipated.* The vibe I got at this point was, "Let's see if we can force Nate to chop out 2/3 of the story, because everybody knows shorter stories are better." I tried and tried to give people a break, but no matter how I tried, I couldn't see any way that the cuts made sense, and that reprint consequently never took place. It was aggravating.