Abu Dhabi
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300 short stories: story 245 & 246
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Popular Girls” & “Their Mothers” author: Karen Shepard year: 2017 where: Casa dolce casa note: I am grouping these two stories together, because they are both written in the 1st person plural (a rarity) and they both come from Shepard’s collection Kiss Me Someone, though I don’t think these “mothers” are the mothers of the “Popular Girls”;…
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300 short stories: story 244
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Eating Fish Alone” author: Lydia Davis year: 2014 where: Home, in bed note: In The New Yorker, Davis’ eyes have been described as “blue milk glass”…and this sentence could almost constitute the length of an average story by Davis. In truth, I’ve read several dozen of her stories this week, but they are so short,…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 