User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-9435571-20130528165250/@comment-5617235-20130529100233

The problem is, though, it's not the same plot. The three shorter stories have no narrative connection to the framing story. (There are thematic connections, though.) Really, what we're dealing with here is essentially a story with three very detailed flashbacks to previously unseen adventures.