100 days 100 short stories read day one
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100 days 100 short stories:: story twenty-four
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Bullet in the Brain author: Tobias Wolff year: 1995 where: a cozy wooden room, 600 meters high in the mountains note: a favorite! a line: “He did not remember Professor Josephs telling his class how Athenian prisoners in Sicily had been released if they could recite Aeschylus, and then reciting Aeschylus himself, right there, in the Greek.”
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100 days 100 short stories:: story twenty-three
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Brownies author: ZZ Packer year: 2000 where: Bologna, a slurp- un caffè piccolo (redundancy necessary!) note: from the collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, which is 1/3 of my life a line: “I thought of those dresses she wore, faded and old, yet so pressed and clean; I then saw the poverty in them, I then could imagine her…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 