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VI. SEPARATE STORIES: Some of you have asked when I was going to come up with some more separate stories. I would like to but the problem is a financial one. As I indicated in the last issue, income is down while prices are up. Thus it is difficult to accumulate enough capital to print stories. Getting the Understanding book printed set me back about $2500 and I still owe about $900 of that so that is the problem. Maybe when I get present debts paid off I'll be able to come up with some.

VII. CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE: I feel that I should render something of an apology for this issue on two counts; 1) There is not as much variety as usual because everything got lengthy and, 2) because there are two long fiction stories and both of them are continued in #90. I did this because I didn't really have enough small stuff to fill up 25 pages if I left one of them out and if I printed all of either of them it would would have taken up 2/3 of the book which wasn't much variety either. So I made the choice of giving you the first half of each which in turn didn't leave too much room for other things. But it is very difficult to assemble this magazine with a large variety of material because fiction is submitted much more frequently than true experience, articles, poems, novelty items, or whatever. Anyway, I hope you like it. VIII. POSTAGE ON SPECIAL PRICE ITEMS: As you see by the price list, I'm trying to clear out the last of #'s 20, 51, 52 and so have put them on a special price of $2.50. However the Post Office refuses to go along with special offers and thus the postage on each is 57 cents as it is for regular issues. Thus when you are ordering any of these 3 please figure on the postage as 50 cents as it is for regular issues. This will help. The 10% doesn't pay all of the postage as it is but, I'm holding on. IX. IRREGULAR PUBLICATION DATES: Some of you have commented unfavorably on the irregularity of TVias appearance. I have to apologize for this but it just can't be helped. I've had to go back to work 3 days a week out of town myself which means that I have to do everything for TVia, Tri Sigma, the mail, myself, my house, garden, pets, etc. between Fri morning and Mon afternoon. It's next to impossible. On top of that I'm a victim of any sort of delay on the part of the typographer, the plate maker, the printer and the bindery. All of them being human, have their own problems but I'm just the one at the end of the line-or more properly you are. But there are a lot of back numbers available and TVia doesn't get out of date like Time so why don't you help you and help me to fill up those gaps by ordering some of them. Fill in your library, there is nothing better available for FPs. How about it?

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