short fiction
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300 short stories: story 251
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Angel in the Architecture” author: Zoe Young year: 2018 where: Abu Dhabi, last day of Eid holiday note: From McSweeney’s 53 (the celebration issue, complete with balloons!); apparently American composer Frank Ticheli wrote a score by the same name (with a plural). a line: “’It was built by Octavin and Marcus Agrippa’–meaningless–“after the battle of Actium”–meaningless–“when…
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300 short stories: story 240
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “House of Women” author: Susan Minot year: 1991 where: the gold sofa note: This story was brilliant not only for its evocative descriptions of coastal nature, but also because of its blatant realism about how women talking together can manage to “resurrect” our ex-boyfriends, lovers, and husbands. a line: “By the time the thunder had grown…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 