# talking mandrake still at large! *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Aug 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *29 Aug 1999, 15:00* . . . so I finally axed him, point blank--"Is the mysterious sold-but-never-published story `Talk of Mandrakes' going to be in STRANGE TRAVELERS, the new collection coming up?" (Or something like that.) And he wrote back, nope, it won't. (Or words to that effect.) So scratch that title off your wish list--in fact, there will be no stories that have been sold but not-yet-published. =mantis= ---