2019 short stories
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300 short stories: story 245 & 246
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Popular Girls” & “Their Mothers” author: Karen Shepard year: 2017 where: Casa dolce casa note: I am grouping these two stories together, because they are both written in the 1st person plural (a rarity) and they both come from Shepard’s collection Kiss Me Someone, though I don’t think these “mothers” are the mothers of the “Popular Girls”;…
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300 short stories: story 243
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “It’s Bad Luck to Die” author: Elizabeth McCracken year: 1993 where: Saadiyat Beach Club poolside with Big Gate note: I really liked the complexity of the mother character in this story. a line: “My life drove my mother crazy. All she wanted was for me to become mirculously blank. I broke her heart–that was my…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 