2019 short stories
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300 short stories: story 298
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Tancredi” author: Barbara Alberti (translated by Lawrence Venuti)/didn’t have access to the Italian year: 1976 where: Al Reem note: Much like the form of Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech, when asked to explain this story, Alberti, instead of answering straightforwardly, tells another story. a line: “She nursed the baby with one mouth at each breast, and she…
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300 short stories: story 297
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Homage for Isaac Babel” author: Doris Lessing year: 1958 where: Al Reem note: This story has such a curious premise and there is virtually no backstory for the characters or their relationships to one another, which makes me think of Hemingway, of course. a line: “Philip rescued her by saying with disdain: ‘Some people don’t know…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 