100 days 100 short stories read day one
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100 short stories:: story 100
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Lazy River author: Zadie Smith year: 2017 where: university campus note: I live somewhere that has its own “lazy river”, when did I expect this? I still prefer sometimes-grimy sometimes-lush Brooklyn. a line: “But once you have entered the Lazy River, with all its pliability and ease, its sterilizing chlorine and swift yet manageable currents, it is very hard to accept the…
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100 short stories:: story 99
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Cat Person” author: Kristen Roupenian year: 2017 where: new bedroom, computer light and warm tea note: a story with buzz a line: “But the thought of what it would take to stop what she had set in motion was overwhelming; it would require an amount of tact and gentleness that she felt was impossible to summon.”
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 