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400 short stories: story 301
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” author: Flannery O’Connor year: 1953 where: Sum of Us note: I read this story real slow today, drinking lemon ice tea. Maybe the slowest I ever read it, and in this slowness, it felt more violent than ever. a line: “Behind them the line of woods gaped like a…
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300 short stories: story 283
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Train” author: Alice Munro year: 2012 where: post-Flywheel, Social House (terrible breakfast) note: “I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people,” from an interview with Alice Munro about the book. This story went in places I did not expect it to go. a line: “She had caught the terrible flu…