Rick Bass
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100 short stories:: story 79
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Fireman author: Rick Bass year: 2001 where: bedroom, clean sheets, mopped floors note: makes me want to reread my favorite Rick Bass story a line: “The way light bulbs melt and lean or point toward a fire’s origin– the gases in incandescent bulbs seeking, sensing that heat, so that you can often use them…
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100 days 100 short stories:: story 65
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Hermit’s Story author: Rick Bass year: 1998 where: Burjeel cafe, English breakfast tea note: read twice a line: “A cold snap comes in October, freezes a skin of ice over the lake — it’s got to be a shallow one, almost a marsh.”