2019 short stories
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300 short stories: story 296
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Terminal” author: Nadine Gordimer year: 1984 where: Al Reem note: My favorite South African writer. a line: “The rubber thing that went past on the assembly belt before the sixteen-year-old future prostitute was remote from the two of them, laughing in bed on a Sunday morning, as the life of any factory worker.” theme(s): Death, marriage,…
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300 short stories: story 295
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Boy” author: Joyce Carol Oates year: 1988 where: the Ikea kitchen table note: This story is one long sentence! No, wait, two sentences. a line: “I opened his pants and took hold of him but he was soft, breathing fast and shallow, was he afraid?…” theme(s): Teacher student relationship, sex, desperation
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 