2018 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 110
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Her First Elk author: Rick Bass year: 2003 where: work, Saadiyat, between meetings note: I did not expect to like this story as much as I did. a line: “And once they had the elk overturned, Ralph emasculated it with his skinning knife, cutting off the ponderous genitals and tossing them farther into the field with no…
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300 short stories:: story 109
Samantha Neugebauer
story: A Bowl of the Real Thing author: Eugenia Chao year: 2006 where: home, pacing in the living room note: This story comes from the Painted Bride Quarterly vault (published the year I entered college–long before I was on the PBQ Editorial Board). a line: “The house we approached, which belonged to Wan Jen’s father, looked like it had been split in half and the other half had run away.”