literature
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300 short stories:: story 103
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Train to Harbin author: Asako Serizawa year: 2016 where: Abu Dhabi, my gold chaise lounge note: This is a story both epic and intimately personal about a Japanese doctor stationed in Pingfang (now Northern China, then the Japanese puppet-state Manchukuo) during WWII, where terrible war crimes, including human experimentation, were committed. a line: “Perhaps it is simply the mind, which, in its inability to accept a fact, returns to it, sharpening the details, resolving…
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300 short stories:: story 101
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Burglar’s Christmas author: Willa Cather (published under the nom de plume Elizabeth L. Seymour) year: 1896 where: philadelphia, living room on Christmas night note: new year, new goal…200 short stories for 2018! The first story for the new year. a line: “O, my poor boy, much or little, what does it matter? Have you wandered so far and…