american literature
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300 short stories: story 247
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Fire Horse” author: Karen Shepard year: 2017 where: Home, in bed note: I love this story, though I hesitate to call it one story. It feels like two stories about the same characters. Margaret Atwood has two stories like that in Bluebeard’s Egg, but she chose to split them into two titles and group…
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300 short stories: story 245 & 246
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Popular Girls” & “Their Mothers” author: Karen Shepard year: 2017 where: Casa dolce casa note: I am grouping these two stories together, because they are both written in the 1st person plural (a rarity) and they both come from Shepard’s collection Kiss Me Someone, though I don’t think these “mothers” are the mothers of the “Popular Girls”;…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 