literary quotes
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300 short stories:: story 111
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Pagans author: Rick Bass year: 2006 where: islands note: I might have ended up doing some needless research on diving bells… a line: “Even now, Richard thinks they missed each other by a hairs-breadth, that some sort of fate was deflected–though how or why or what, he cannot say. He thinks it might have been one of…
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300 short stories:: story 109
Samantha Neugebauer
story: A Bowl of the Real Thing author: Eugenia Chao year: 2006 where: home, pacing in the living room note: This story comes from the Painted Bride Quarterly vault (published the year I entered college–long before I was on the PBQ Editorial Board). a line: “The house we approached, which belonged to Wan Jen’s father, looked like it had been split in half and the other half had run away.”