fiction
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300 short stories:: story 239
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Breathe” author: Rachel Heng year: 2018 where: morning with coffee note: I love trees! How simple, how true a line: “But what if we are wrong? What if the hubris is justified, if this is indeed different from the lava and ice that we have faced before? What if this does not pass?” theme(s): Nature,…
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300 short stories:: story 234
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Aquacero” author: Patricia Engel year: 2019 where: Dubai at Big Gate’s, then at home note: This story was selected for the 2019 O. Henry Prize collection (first appeared in the Kenyon Review). a line: “’Survival requires different things of different people.’ I don’t know where in me this came from. It was something I hadn’t even…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 