2018 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 118
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Fear author: Lydia Davis year: 1992 where: East Village, NYC note:o“When Davis was younger, the obsessions of her narrators tended to be amorous; now they are philosophical.” –Dana Goodyear a line: “Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly.”
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300 short stories:: story 117
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Country Boy author: Yusuf al-Sibai year: ? (early 20th century) where: home, kitchen table (again!) note: translated by the great Denys Johnson-Davis, who was the first, really, to recognize the explosion of Arabic short story writing following WWII a line: “Though he looked silent and quiet, it was a case of still waters running deep. With closed eyes and lowered head, all shyness and diffidence, he would sit beside his father, oozing innocence, when all the…
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