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Welcome to our penultimate SEA newsletter! (And apologies for sending this out a few hours later than our usual slot; we’re both at home in Vancouver and completely bamboozled by the time change.) Today’s edition features us wallowing in wishful thinking — specifically, sharing stories that we wish we could’ve covered in this issue.

At FFJ, the capacity constraints are real: we’re a two-woman (plus two pooches, but they don’t work much) show, and last June we received over 200 pitches for the four formal editorial slots that we had available. Making these decisions caused us near-physical pain as we had to say goodbye to ideas we knew would be stellar in final form and writers that we would have loved to work with. It also meant that the original vision we had for the issue inevitably shifted as we gave up on the hyper-specific topics we were hoping to see covered to make way for fresh proposals.

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As SEA comes to a close (we’ll be back next week with our usual Letter from the Editors to officially wrap up the issue), we thought it could be fun to take a look back at some of these untold and/or un-commissioned stories. We have links to where you can find out more if they pique your interest the way they did ours.

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