short fiction
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400 short stories: story 301
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” author: Flannery O’Connor year: 1953 where: Sum of Us note: I read this story real slow today, drinking lemon ice tea. Maybe the slowest I ever read it, and in this slowness, it felt more violent than ever. a line: “Behind them the line of woods gaped like a…
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300 short stories: story 298
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Tancredi” author: Barbara Alberti (translated by Lawrence Venuti)/didn’t have access to the Italian year: 1976 where: Al Reem note: Much like the form of Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech, when asked to explain this story, Alberti, instead of answering straightforwardly, tells another story. a line: “She nursed the baby with one mouth at each breast, and she…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 