literature
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100 days 100 short stories:: story twenty-three
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Brownies author: ZZ Packer year: 2000 where: Bologna, a slurp- un caffè piccolo (redundancy necessary!) note: from the collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, which is 1/3 of my life a line: “I thought of those dresses she wore, faded and old, yet so pressed and clean; I then saw the poverty in them, I then could imagine her…
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100 days 100 short stories:: story twenty-two
Samantha Neugebauer
story: What You Pawn I will Redeem author: Sherman Alexie year: 2003 where: kitchen table, Italy note: a reread, the first story seventeen-year-old me read after moving to New York City a line: “Maybe the cancer started in her broken heart and then leaked out into her breasts.”
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 