literature
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300 short stories:: story 173
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Paper Menagerie” author: Ken Liu year: 2011 where: Think Coffee…first short story of the new year. Hello, 2019! note: The first short story to win the Nebula, the Hugo and the World Fantasy Award a line: “The catalog said she was eighteen, loved to dance, and spoke good English because she was from Hong Kong. None of these facts…
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300 short stories:: story 170
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Time for the Eyes to Adjust” author: Linn Ullmann year: 2018 where: New York City note: some of this story reminds me of Picasso’s personal life (though I hear there are clues in this story that the story leans more autobiographical towards the writer’s parents) a line: “The father used to say that for his seventieth birthday…