2020 Short Stories
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Danielle Evans “Snakes” | Short Story #337
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Snakes” author: Danielle Evans year: 2010 from before you suffocate your own fool self where: Quarantine note: I like how this story showed how fear can develop; the example here is a fear of snakes, but it hints at the fear of abandonment and the “other” too. a line: “A confession: because I didn’t…
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Rebecca Makkai “A Story for Your Daughters, A Story for Your Sons” | Short Story #336
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “A Story for Your Daughters, A Story for Your Sons” author: Rebecca Makkai year: 2020 where: Quarantine note: This is a new story from the Spring 2020 issue of The Paris Review; the first paragraph is gorgeous and reads like a fairy tale. For people interested in stories of female utopias (Charlotte Perkins Gillman,…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 