2018 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 164
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Great Wall of China” author: Kafka year: published 1931, written 1917 where: outside, nice autumn weather in the Dhabs note: a story about nation-building, oh brilliant brilliant Kafka a line: “In this respect of course our own age had a great advantage over that long-past one; almost every educated contemporary was a mason by profession…
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300 short stories:: story 163
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Now That the Circus Has Shut Down, the Human Cannonball Looks for Work” author: Meghan Phillips year: 2018 where: 我的办公室 (again) note: This short short story has the punch at the end like contemporary English poetry. Maybe it has something to do with its length too; though it would not be mistaken for a prose poem.…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 