100 days 100 short stories read day one
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100 days 100 short stories:: story ten
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Friends author: Grace Paley year: 1980 where: dining hall, little black booth note: thinking of three birds, creatures talking together, all the women I’ve ever known, in threes, at kitchen tables a line: “The reason is, we want her to be present when we’re dying.”
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100 days 100 short stories:: story nine
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Pounds, Ounces, Meat author: Zhu Wen year: 2007 where: office desk, 9:20am, before the clock officially begins note: writer mentions his own book in the story! a line: “Never one to be pushed around, my girlfriend got right on, using her voice box exactly as God had intended.”