In the Country
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400 short stories: story 314
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Miracle Worker” author: Mia Alvar year: 2011 where: with the boys note: the spray bottle finale stunned me a line: “Minnie turned to look toward the parking lot. ‘I was eighteen when I came here. I’m forty now. I’ve never done anything but clean rich Arabs’ houses.” theme(s): Disability, class, ethics
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300 short stories: story 268
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Contract Overseas” author: Mia Alvar year: 2015 where: Bagdad Theater on Hawthorne Blvd. note: I love brother sister sibling stories. This collection was recommended to me in Aspen. a line: “After the cafés closed, they spilled into the dormitories to prolong such life-and-death debates as whether literature had social duties, as Salvador Lopez believed, or…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 