short fiction
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300 short stories: story 272
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “How to Fall” author: Tom Barbash year: 2013 where: Gold sofa note: Skiing is always something that always seems so far away from my reality. a line: “I rode up to the snow-blessed hills of Vermont on a ski trip for singles. I did.” theme(s): Break-up, loss, grief, dating
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300 short stories: story 268
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Contract Overseas” author: Mia Alvar year: 2015 where: Bagdad Theater on Hawthorne Blvd. note: I love brother sister sibling stories. This collection was recommended to me in Aspen. a line: “After the cafés closed, they spilled into the dormitories to prolong such life-and-death debates as whether literature had social duties, as Salvador Lopez believed, or…