2019 short stories
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300 short stories: story 300
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “An Insolvable Problem of Genetics” author: Josef Skvorecky year: 1966 where: Casa dolce casa note: A writer of ‘text-appeals’ in the mid-sixties in Czechoslovakia, which “somewhat resembled the celebrated jazz-and-poetry readings in San Francisco in the Beatnik Era, only it had nothing to do with poetry, although there was plenty of Jazz,” says Skvorecky. a line: “While…
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300 short stories: story 299
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Blue” author: David Brooks year: 1985 where: kitchen, Big Gate napping note: Brooks is a poet turned prose writer, though in 1989, he wrote about the breakdown of genre. This is one of his first short stories. Something about this story also reminds me of the night Obama won the election. a line: “How so many…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 