Italy
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100 days 100 short stories:: story twenty-three
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Brownies author: ZZ Packer year: 2000 where: Bologna, a slurp- un caffè piccolo (redundancy necessary!) note: from the collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, which is 1/3 of my life a line: “I thought of those dresses she wore, faded and old, yet so pressed and clean; I then saw the poverty in them, I then could imagine her…
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100 days 100 short stories:: stories eighteen & nineteen & twenty
Samantha Neugebauer
story: I Stand Here Ironing author: Tillie Olsen year: 1957 where: Düsseldorf, Christmas travels note: delayed posts due to these travels, Internet, mountains a line: “She was not glib or quick in a world where glibness and quickness were easily confused with ability to learn.” story: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank author: Nathan Englander year:…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 