Abu Dhabi
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300 short stories:: story 164
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Great Wall of China” author: Kafka year: published 1931, written 1917 where: outside, nice autumn weather in the Dhabs note: a story about nation-building, oh brilliant brilliant Kafka a line: “In this respect of course our own age had a great advantage over that long-past one; almost every educated contemporary was a mason by profession…
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300 short stories:: story 162
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Love Machine author: Samantha Hunt year: 2017 where: home physically, but mentally with The Man Who Fell to Earth note: George Saunders, Ovid, and Dostoevsky would have a party in this story a line: “’Machines,’ he continues, ‘have one of only two choices. Either they are run by humans or else they run themselves. And the way…