america
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300 short stories:: story 106
Samantha Neugebauer
story: St. Clair Flats author: Constance Fenimore Woolson year: 1873 where: Dubai and Abu Dhabi note: For half the story I thought the main characters were a woman and a man, and I considered this extraordinary for its time (late 19th century) since the characters seemed to be unmarried and not the least perturbed to ‘Lewis and Clark’ around the American Great Lakes, but alas, I learned the characters were two male companions! a line: “How boundless is looks! One hill in the distance, one dark line of…
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100 days 100 short stories:: story 40
Samantha Neugebauer
story: A Permanent Member of the Family author: Russell Banks year: 2013 where: taxi ride home note: reading American writers during this week of sadness for America a line: “So when one loses it prematurely, in childhood and adolescence, through divorce or the sudden early death of a parent or, more usually, war, it can leave one fixated…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 