2018 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 135
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Are They Vampires, or Are They Just Chinese? author: C Pam Zhang year: 2017 where: airplane note: from an interview about the story, Zhang said, “What’s creepy is my being haunted for years by the pressure to write a Sad Immigrant Story.” a line: “We wear long driving gloves even when we don’t drive. And when we do: roof down, swinging over curbs, black…
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300 short stories:: story 133
Samantha Neugebauer
story: American Dreams author: Peter Carey year: 1974 where: airplane, somewhere over Europa note: My first Peter Carey short story and the theme works in nicely with a non-fiction essay I have been working on, actually. Bingo! a line: “On Bald Hill there are half a dozen telescopes through which the Americans can spy on the town and…