Abu Dhabi
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300 short stories: story 240
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “House of Women” author: Susan Minot year: 1991 where: the gold sofa note: This story was brilliant not only for its evocative descriptions of coastal nature, but also because of its blatant realism about how women talking together can manage to “resurrect” our ex-boyfriends, lovers, and husbands. a line: “By the time the thunder had grown…
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300 short stories:: story 237
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver” author: River Solomon year: 2018 where: Al Reem Island note: Included in Best American Short Stories 2018 a line: “I want to tell her–know this: The world plays out as games of power, who has it, who doesn’t.” theme(s): Mothers and daughters, transgender, intergenerational…