short fiction
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300 short stories:: story 226
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Mercedes Kane” author: Elizabeth McCracken year: 1994 where: 客厅,大门 note: Always on the search for more stories about mothers and daughters. a line: “She was sure she would’ve been great in her twenties, thirties, forever, if she had just been encouraged to greatness early on.” theme(s): Mothers and daughters, genius, child prodigy, parenthood
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300 short stories:: story 224
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Contest” author: Grace Paley year: 1959 where: casa dolce casa note: Il était une fois, there was a man who was intimidated by a woman who knew what she wanted. Small men call women selfish if they feel like a woman’s life will never revolve solely around them. It was true then, and it…