literature
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100 short stories:: story 90
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas author: Ursula Le Guin year: 1975 where: kitchen table UAE, new bird mug note: social contracts, distant pain we cannot hear, sewn ears a line: “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain…
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100 short stories:: story 89
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Kino author: Haruki Murakami year: 2017 where: in and around Saratoga note: the tell-tale heart taps a line: “All he could do was trust in the birds, in all the birds, with their wings and beaks.”