2018 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 126
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Hills Like White Elephants author: Ernest Hemingway year: 1927 where: the ride north from Barcelona note: …when in Spain, and coincidentally, I tried anise liquor for the first time in Paris a couple weeks ago at a beautiful small place called Tintamarre! a line: “Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the things you’ve waited so long for, like absinthe.”
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300 short stories:: story 125
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Now More Than Ever author: Zadie Smith year: 2018 where: Bologna, airport…delay delay delay note: this story mentions poké bowls, which I belatedly realized this June is a now a big deal in NYC…elsewhere too? Also, I now know the plot of “A Place in the Sun”. a line: “I said, In our philosophy department at the university, we feel that, just as there are degrees of sin or error, there are degrees of sympathy. It’s not a zero-sum game, or it used not to be, in the past. Well, there’s your problem, Scout said. You’re two-faced, you’re looking the wrong way, and if you don’t watch out you’re going to find yourself beyond the pale.”
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 