books
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300 short stories:: story 109
Samantha Neugebauer
story: A Bowl of the Real Thing author: Eugenia Chao year: 2006 where: home, pacing in the living room note: This story comes from the Painted Bride Quarterly vault (published the year I entered college–long before I was on the PBQ Editorial Board). a line: “The house we approached, which belonged to Wan Jen’s father, looked like it had been split in half and the other half had run away.”
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300 short stories:: story 108
Samantha Neugebauer
story: In Ruth’s Country author: Rick Bass year: 1994 where: highline, walking and reading note: In The Theory of Light and Matter (2008), a short story collection I found in South Korea, Andrew Porter has a story called Departure about a young guy who wants to date an Amish girl. I think reading this story along with Bass’ is quite…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 