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300 short stories:: story 135
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Are They Vampires, or Are They Just Chinese? author: C Pam Zhang year: 2017 where: airplane note: from an interview about the story, Zhang said, “What’s creepy is my being haunted for years by the pressure to write a Sad Immigrant Story.” a line: “We wear long driving gloves even when we don’t drive. And when we do: roof down, swinging over curbs, black…
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300 short stories:: story 131
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Cities I’ve Never Lived In author: Sara Majka year: 2015 where: Fiumicino Airport, Roma note: As someone who has traveled places grand and bland alone, this story felt sometimes like a mirror. a line: “I thought that those few people passing out food—with their hands in little plastic gloves, and their cross behind them—should not be our…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 