literature
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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.”
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300 short stories:: story 107
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Wild Horses author: Rick Bass year: 1988 where: office, desk–finally, my Rick Bass ‘old and new’ collection arrives! A parcel from America! note: originally published in The Paris Review around the time of my birth a line: “He wanted to know what was owed, so he could go on.’”
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 