2018 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 102
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Uglypuss author: Margaret Atwood (pre-The Handmaid’s Tale) year: 1983 where: london, black coffee note: this story is featured in the phenomenal collection, Bluebeard’s Egg. It also has an intriguing POV swap near the end. a line: “Tonight, she feels dingy, old. Soon she will start getting into the firming cream; she will start worrying about her eyelids. Beginning…
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300 short stories:: story 101
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Burglar’s Christmas author: Willa Cather (published under the nom de plume Elizabeth L. Seymour) year: 1896 where: philadelphia, living room on Christmas night note: new year, new goal…200 short stories for 2018! The first story for the new year. a line: “O, my poor boy, much or little, what does it matter? Have you wandered so far and…