Abu Dhabi

  • 400 short stories: story 312

    Samantha Neugebauer

    story: “Sealed Off” author: Eileen Chang year: 1944 (English translation 2016) where: Blacksmith Coffee note:  Chang’s studies were interrupted in Hong Kong when the Japanese attacked (the same week as Pearl Harbor). Chang returned to Shanghai. All Chang’s stories (to my knowledge) are set in either Hong Kong or Shanghai. a line: “But,” said Cuiyuan, “a girl from…

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  • 400 short stories: story 311

    Samantha Neugebauer

    story: “The Stone” author: Louise Erdrich year: 2019 where: Happiness Island note:  “This story is about finding solace in an entity that isn’t human.” -Erdrich a line: “A stone is, in its own way, a living thing, not a biological being but one with a history far beyond our capacity to understand or even imagine.” & “A stone…

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