Abu Dhabi
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400 short stories: story 314
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Miracle Worker” author: Mia Alvar year: 2011 where: with the boys note: the spray bottle finale stunned me a line: “Minnie turned to look toward the parking lot. ‘I was eighteen when I came here. I’m forty now. I’ve never done anything but clean rich Arabs’ houses.” theme(s): Disability, class, ethics
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400 short stories: story 313
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “A Dream of Men” author: Mary Gaitskill year: 1988 where: Home, kitchen table note: Apparently this story is discussed by Ben Marcus and Deborah Treisman on an episode of The New Yorker: Fiction podcast; I’ll have to give it a listen this week. a line: “Ever since then, Laura had felt good around Dr. Ramirez.…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 