2019 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 234
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Aquacero” author: Patricia Engel year: 2019 where: Dubai at Big Gate’s, then at home note: This story was selected for the 2019 O. Henry Prize collection (first appeared in the Kenyon Review). a line: “’Survival requires different things of different people.’ I don’t know where in me this came from. It was something I hadn’t even…
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300 short stories:: story 233
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Confirmation” author: Alina Grabowski year: 2018 where: Mio Ufficio note: The writer’s first publication. 1st Person Plural. a line: “Whenever Lucy acolytes we sit in the front row, pulling faces and making the sign language word for fine: one palm held to the chest, thumb touching breastbone before the hand hinges forward. This is the only word…