Selecting content for a short story collection

Blog » So I think I've mentioned a few of times that the next thing I want to publish is a book of short stories. Due to [gestures at the world] all of this, and some other things, progress on this has been extremely slow over the course of 2021. Currently I am hung up on selecting content.
At present, the book will definitely contain:

"Valuable Humans In Transit" - very slightly rewritten
"Gorge" - somewhat rewritten
"I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is A Big Responsibility" - almost exactly as is
"The Difference" - almost exactly as is
"Lena" - as is
"28 Millennia Later" - lightly rewritten probably
"The Frame-By-Frame" - somewhat rewritten

This is, I would say, enough content to fill about half of a book. In total it comes to around 25,000 words. This would be a good book, I think, but too short. There's a floor on how much I can charge for a book, and I also want to give people their money's worth, which means I would like to put more content in.
Other than this, I have...
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Published on December 19, 2021 08:55
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