2018 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 159
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Benito Cereno author: Herman Melville year: 1856 where: work after reading Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past note: People often cannot conceive of reality’s happenings, because the truth is unthinkable to them. a line: “That moment, across the long-benighted mind of Captain Delano, a flash of revelation swept, illuminating, in unanticipated clearness, his host’s whole mysterious demeanor, with every…
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300 short stories:: story 158
Samantha Neugebauer
story: What Terrible Thing It Was author: Esmé Weijun Wan year: 2017 (but read in 2018’s Best American Short Stories) where: home with Bowie note: I remember the morning I found out Trump won too. I was plant-sitting at a magical apartment in Al Ain Towers with my then-boyfriend, who woke me up to break the news.…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 