100 days 100 short stories read day one
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100 days 100 short stories:: stories eighteen & nineteen & twenty
Samantha Neugebauer
story: I Stand Here Ironing author: Tillie Olsen year: 1957 where: Düsseldorf, Christmas travels note: delayed posts due to these travels, Internet, mountains a line: “She was not glib or quick in a world where glibness and quickness were easily confused with ability to learn.” story: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank author: Nathan Englander year:…
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100 days 100 short stories:: story seventeen
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Where Do You Go? author: Samar Farah Fitzgerald year: 2013 where: in bed, surrounded by luggage needed to be packed note: the lake, the lush sleepy town, feels pushed up against Margaret Atwood’s Bluebeard’s Egg, utterly enjoyable (both stories) a line: “And at some point, Vega’s unlikely reaction to Henry’s attention–the very fact that she didn’t anticipate falling…