2019 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 232
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Hunger” author: Yi Jiang year: 2018 where: Library Cafe note: The writer’s first publication. a line: “I screwed up my eyes in a contrived expression of disgust. ‘That’s gross.’” theme(s): Eating, Body image, Cultural food practices
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300 short stories:: story 231
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” author: Amy Hempel year: 1985 where: Al Reem Island note: This is Hempel’s first published story. When the narrator says, “I remember only the useless things I hear”, it reminded me of the mother in “Mercedes Kane”who laments in the first paragraph about what she can and cannot…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 