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Well, on one hand, I see where you're coming from, because it's supposed to be Guro Story of the Year, not Edward Hyde of the Year. On the other hand, let's imagine a spherical winner in a vacuum. Would it not be a shame that no matter how good their writing would be in the new year, it could not be nominated? Would it not discourage the writer themselves? Would it not make them feel like they might better wait for the following year to write? And even if we consider the author to not be bothered by such things, it would still be a shame knowing there were works totally deserving to be there among the best, but denied the right to remain in history. If they really keep to be the best in the next year too, why not deny them the right to be named as such. Nothing wrong with it if they deserve it.

Another idea I have though is maybe it should be Guro Author of the Year or Guro Writer of the Year (which sounds better?) instead of Guro Story of the Year. I tried my best coming up with the rules on the go to excuse some authors getting nominated as a single entry and others having different stories as separate ones, but maybe we should just solve this problem at its root and make every author a single entry from the start? It might make it harder to deal with collaborative works like Quiet Confidence, but I'd say they occur much rarer than cases of a single author writing more than one story during the year.