literature
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100 days 100 short stories:: story twenty-five
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Displacement author: David Wong Louie year: 1989 where: café in tiny Vergato, Italy, next to a small clothing boutique called “Doha Shop” note: last short story of 2016 a line: “They were married on the condition he take her far away.”
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100 days 100 short stories:: story twenty-four
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Bullet in the Brain author: Tobias Wolff year: 1995 where: a cozy wooden room, 600 meters high in the mountains note: a favorite! a line: “He did not remember Professor Josephs telling his class how Athenian prisoners in Sicily had been released if they could recite Aeschylus, and then reciting Aeschylus himself, right there, in the Greek.”