american literature
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300 short stories:: story 181
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Blue Tree” author: Rick Bass year: 2014-ish where: sofa and sleepy note: This story encapsulates the impermanence of things, things like youth, places, and moments, but also–the pleasure of reading a short story. I’m reading and rereading Rick Bass this week while pondering the destruction of Joshua Tree National Park and other parks…
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300 short stories:: story 161
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Black Cat author: Edgar Allen Poe year: 1843 where: mio ufficio note: Someone left this fine story at the printer! Snatched! Also, this story was first printed in Philadelphia, my home city. A good story for a Halloween mood. a line: “My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 