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300 short stories:: story 160
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Flaubert Again author: Anne Carson year: 2018 where: Ville de Paris note: what a tour de force…is this a future of the short short story or something else? a line: “While they were there, she’d renounced writing. Instead, she made sketches in a sketchbook and titled it “The Glass of Water,” as if that were what everyone…
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300 short stories:: story 159
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Benito Cereno author: Herman Melville year: 1856 where: work after reading Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past note: People often cannot conceive of reality’s happenings, because the truth is unthinkable to them. a line: “That moment, across the long-benighted mind of Captain Delano, a flash of revelation swept, illuminating, in unanticipated clearness, his host’s whole mysterious demeanor, with every…
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