american fiction
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300 short stories:: story 223
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Goodbye and Good Luck” author: Grace Paley year: 1959 where: taxi & home note: This is one of Paley’s first three stories she ever wrote. a line: “’I was popular in certain circles, says Aunt Rose.” theme(s): Marriage, love, happiness, polyamory
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300 short stories:: story 209
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” author: Karen Russell year: 2012 where: Eat Greek, mid-afternoon note: the collection’s title story a line: “There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species. And now that loneliness was over.” theme(s): marriage and longevity
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 