literature
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300 short stories:: story 140
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Interest author: Naomi Shihab Nye year: 2011 where: home finally, Abu Dhabi note: of course, there is always a curiosity to a magnificent poet’s prose, hmmm! a line: “His affection for unusual information fascinated her. For example, he loved peculiar place names–Bug Tussle on an ancient sign, or Derryfubble Road in Ireland–and he wore T-shirts from…
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300 short stories:: story 137
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Displaced author: Richard Ford year: 2018 where: baby, it’s cold outside–white comfy bed, inside (winter in Australia) note: a real solid story (of course, it’s Ford)…the best of The New Yorker in a long time a line: “Something had disappointed her. Something transient or displaced in him. Something had been attractive to her about Niall in her fragile state, and been attractive to me, in my own rare…