Margaret Atwood
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300 short stories: story 254 & 255
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Fifth Story” & “Happy Endings” author: Clarice Lispector & Margaret Atwood year: here and there 🙂 1950s & 1980s where: Abu Dhabi note: Putting these two together since their forms are similar. a line: “In the mouths of some of the cockroaches, there are traces of white powder. I am the first to observe the…
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300 short stories: story 247
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Fire Horse” author: Karen Shepard year: 2017 where: Home, in bed note: I love this story, though I hesitate to call it one story. It feels like two stories about the same characters. Margaret Atwood has two stories like that in Bluebeard’s Egg, but she chose to split them into two titles and group…