2019 short stories
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300 short stories:: story 210
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “An Exotic Marriage” author: Yukiko Motoya year: 2018 (English translation) where: Train in Japan, Kyoto to Hiroshima note: This story was actually a novella, not much shorter than The Great Gatsby a line: “The wife explained that it had all started with the stones in the flower dish she’d put by their bedside. ‘They’d get to look…
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300 short stories:: story 209
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” author: Karen Russell year: 2012 where: Eat Greek, mid-afternoon note: the collection’s title story a line: “There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species. And now that loneliness was over.” theme(s): marriage and longevity
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 