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300 short stories: story 287
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Thunderstruck” author: Elizabeth McCracken year: 2015 where: Father of the Gazelle note: Novella a line: “Laura was more outgoing, so she had to introduce her brother to friends–but once she had her own children she understood comparison was necessary. It was how you discovered their personalities: the light of one child threw the other child into…
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300 short stories:: story 159
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Benito Cereno author: Herman Melville year: 1856 where: work after reading Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past note: People often cannot conceive of reality’s happenings, because the truth is unthinkable to them. a line: “That moment, across the long-benighted mind of Captain Delano, a flash of revelation swept, illuminating, in unanticipated clearness, his host’s whole mysterious demeanor, with every…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 