Short Stories
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400 short stories: story 303
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Fruit of My Woman” author: Han Kang year: 1997 where: Post- mapo dofu; Abu Dhabi. note: “Han Kang wrote this story in 1997, and it is in many ways a direct precursor to her 2007 novel The Vegetarian – in both, a married couple in their early thirties find their hitherto uneventful lives turned upside down…
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400 short stories: story 302
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Girls, At Play” author: Celeste Ng year: 2010 where: It is almost 6PM, but it feels like mid-afternoon. note: First-person plural story. One part of this story feels like the scene in Clueless with Cher gives Brittany Murphy a makeover. a line: “Don’t tell anyone if you hate it, if his tongue feels like a dead…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 