Abu Dhabi
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300 short stories: story 251
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Angel in the Architecture” author: Zoe Young year: 2018 where: Abu Dhabi, last day of Eid holiday note: From McSweeney’s 53 (the celebration issue, complete with balloons!); apparently American composer Frank Ticheli wrote a score by the same name (with a plural). a line: “’It was built by Octavin and Marcus Agrippa’–meaningless–“after the battle of Actium”–meaningless–“when…
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300 short stories: story 247
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Fire Horse” author: Karen Shepard year: 2017 where: Home, in bed note: I love this story, though I hesitate to call it one story. It feels like two stories about the same characters. Margaret Atwood has two stories like that in Bluebeard’s Egg, but she chose to split them into two titles and group…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 