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300 short stories:: story 154
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Poor Girl author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya year: 2018 where: desk, work work note: surprises at every turn! (translated) a line: “Not only did she keep the house and work, she also looked after her mother-in-law, a former language-arts teacher, who was crazy about the theatre and literary readings, enjoyed the courtship of elderly military officers, and regularly came home…
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300 short stories:: story 152
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street author: Mavis Gallant year: 1963, originally; 2002 collection (reprint) where: mon bureau note: the title of this collection comes from the fact that Gallant wrote these stories in Paris, but they are set in many places a line: “His social compass was out of order because the others couldn’t tell Peter…