Shelf Life

So I've been trying to find new short stories for my longest running reading groups. When we started the project 10 months ago I was like: 'There are 6000 short stories and poems on this database! I'll never run out!' Unfortunately I appear to have used up all the really good ones already - and the longer running groups have gotten pretty discerning. So I've been buying, borrowing and begging short story collections and anthologies to try to bulk out the existing stock. At the minute I'm reading a collection by Jean Rhys. It's very odd. All the stories so far have been crazily short - like not even stories, more like descriptive vignettes or snapshots of a single moment in time. They're lovely, but I'm not sure what the POINT is? I don't think I could use any of the ones I've read so far in a group.
What's strange is that her short stories aren't at all how I imagined they'd be. I've only ever read one thing by her before, a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea - which is told from the point of view of Bertha Rochester (the madwoman in the attic from Jane Eyre) only she's not actually called Bertha - that's just the name Rochester gives her. It's a brilliant book. I haven't read it in years but I think I might have to go back to it and see if I'm remembering her writing wrongly or if the short stories are really as different as I imagine.
I'm also reading a collection by Angela Carter. Love Angela Carter, her short stories are EXACTLY how I imagined they'd be. Surreal and dirty and twisted and mad. I'm also reading Diana Wynne-Jones last book, the one her sister had to finish. I'm taking it really slowly, because I know that once this is done there will never be another one. That's a gut punch. No more DWJ books ever. Jesus. I'm also applying for jobs! Found three I might like and might even have a chance of getting... If that happens then all this short story searching will be a moot point. Fingers crossed!