Dearest Pretty People: I gots one of my infamous ideas. Come close, listen quiet…
Let’s talk.
I am coming to all y’alls as editor of the publication, Sobremesa
The art of conversation. We want your interesting, funny, and/or thoughtful Responses to Medium stories. Pull up a seat…medium.com
We’re a publication that only publishes responses. Someday, we’ll be notorious for it. At present, we’re settling for slightly famous. Not quite as satisfying, but we’ll take it for now.
We’ve been wanting to do something that, I think, would be really cool, if we can swing it. Listen close…
We want to publish a whole thread,
To publish consecutive responses, to highlight a conversation that we think is getting a beautiful treatment here on Medium.
Thanks to Todd Hannula 🤓, we’ve found a conversation that we’d love to feature this way. Consider this a formal invitation to all the writers involved to submit to Sobremesa.
It started with a story by Heather Nann. Her story’s disqualified, as it’s not a response and it’s already in another publication. Still, it’s the appropriate starting point:
I started a publication, Femmes Unafraid, last week. I am a one-person operation and worked hurriedly — too hurriedly …medium.com
In her customary fashion, she inspired a whole chain of well-worded stories. Starting here, with a story by Amanda Dickson. Her story is the first one we’d like to publish in this conversational experiment:
A. McEnnis responded:
Todd Hannula 🤓 responded, briefly:
As always, I am drawn in by your perspective, but I’m curious where this assertion hails (since you were sharing data…medium.com
And A. McEnnis made a further response:
And Todd Hannula 🤓 had a further response to make:
Scientists can disagree whether dark matter exists. They can probe and test and even do research on the physics which…medium.com
Todd’s is the recentest, so the thread might only be midway on here.
If I’ve missed any good chapters in this story, please alert me to them.
If the writers of these stories would be copacetic to the idea, I would humbly request them to submit their stories to the Sobremesa submission portal:
Unless you’re already writers for Sobremesa. If so, you know what to do.
I would love your participation in this, Amanda, A., and Todd. It would be so cool. I can’t even sit still.
An astute reader might observe that I’ve just put all the responses into the same place. That being so, the question might be begged, why would they need to be formally featured in a publication?
Put it this way: this is the first venture of this sort that we’re attempting at Sobremesa. The next one, hopefully, will appear more organically. You’ll be reading along in Sobremesa and you’ll notice there’s a bit of a thread going on in the stories you’ve been reading for the last week and a bit. It would be every bit like that time that William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gore Vidal proved that verbal fist-fighting is a thing, back just before the Reagan administration. Only, hopefully, more civilized.
It could be big.
— O
