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300 short stories:: story 126
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Hills Like White Elephants author: Ernest Hemingway year: 1927 where: the ride north from Barcelona note: …when in Spain, and coincidentally, I tried anise liquor for the first time in Paris a couple weeks ago at a beautiful small place called Tintamarre! a line: “Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the things you’ve waited so long for, like absinthe.”
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300 short stories:: story 124
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Ghosts and Empties author: Lauren Groff year: 2018 where: Paris, 11th arrondissement note: Wow, Groff has written a story about women walking, and joined the ranks of this great tradition of literature. Groff has some stories I really like–“At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”–and others I could leave; this is one to take, though all her work…