Talk:Exchange a Short-Story for Convincing Rhetoric and Public Attention/@comment-174.102.102.30-20160705072656/@comment-71.56.155.244-20160705080005

It actually goes to extreme lengths to avoid this problem. You click on the icon for the short story item and it brings up a list of all items in your inventory with the necessary qualities. (I don't think I've seen anything else in the game that works that way, but it's a really intuitive way of handling just this problem.)