japanese literature
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300 short stories:: story 210
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “An Exotic Marriage” author: Yukiko Motoya year: 2018 (English translation) where: Train in Japan, Kyoto to Hiroshima note: This story was actually a novella, not much shorter than The Great Gatsby a line: “The wife explained that it had all started with the stones in the flower dish she’d put by their bedside. ‘They’d get to look…
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300 short stories:: story 189
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Man-eating Cats” author: Haruki Murakami year: 2006 where: in palestra note: a reread, a favorite, a fantasy! a line: “The wind was the wind at the edge of the world. An inescapable retro color filled the place. It made me feel as if I were being quietly swallowed up by an alien reality, something foreign and…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 