dubai
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300 short stories: story 282
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “To Reach Japan” author: Alice Munro year: 2012 where: Starbucks, Festival City note: I picked up this book for only 39 dirhams–Dear Life–and the writing is so good, so much denser than what I’ve been reading, books by younger contemporary female writers, mostly. Her style (as well as the font) reminds me of the Maeve…
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300 short stories: story 281
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “No Place for Good People” author: Ottessa Moshfegh year: 2016 where: Dubai Metro note: I love the juxtaposition posed between the restaurant Friendly’s and Hooter’s. I do think the entire last paragraph of the story should have been cut. a line: “Paul pushed himself up and scooted out from the booth and stood next to her,…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 