Sherman Alexie
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100 short stories:: story 77
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest author: Sherman Alexie year: 2017 where: Vietnam, Majestic Hotel Saigon note: reading so widely these days a line: “She remembered reading once that Cleopatra had lived closer in time to the building of the first Pizza Hut than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.”
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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.”