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300 short stories:: story 128
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Three Friends in a Hammock author: April Ayers Lawson year: 2017 where: Fiumicino Airport, Roma note: I liked this story more than I thought I would when I started it. First person plural done well! a line: “I thought of how we try to tell people, I am the one who really loves you, maybe most especially when…
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300 short stories:: story 116
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “I Only Came to Use the Phone” author: Gabriel García Márquez year: 1992 where: home, kitchen table note: undercurrents reminiscent of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper a line: “He gave her a bishop’s blessing from the door, asked her to trust him, and disappeared forever.”