2018 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 116
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “I Only Came to Use the Phone” author: Gabriel García Márquez year: 1992 where: home, kitchen table note: undercurrents reminiscent of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper a line: “He gave her a bishop’s blessing from the door, asked her to trust him, and disappeared forever.”
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300 short stories:: story 115
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Man Who Committed Suicide author: Morton Marcus year: 1998 where: High line, NYU Abu Dhabi campus, hammock note: check out Jim Savio’s short film “Tabiib” adapted from this story a line: “Each evening the man would climb to his room above the city and read the newspaper.”
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 