From the Young Writers Boot Camp being held next door (conducted by the inestimable Cate Kennedy http://www.scribepublications.com.au/author/catekennedy):
‘If you can’t get a story to work, don’t throw it away. Put it in the story morgue and use it for body parts.’
Huzzah 
…makes me glad Pete’s “Horn” came up in one piece. I’d hate to have found chunks of that in the morgue. And what a Frankenstein’s Monster of a story it would have made in combination with other leftovers!