Short Stories
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100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-eight
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Sonny’s Blues author: James Baldwin year: 1958 where: Burjeel Hospital, the fanciest hospital cafeteria I’ve ever been in note: a reread, a favorite, a story for everyone a line: “Isabel finally confessed that it wasn’t like living with a person at all, it was like living with sound.”
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100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-six
Samantha Neugebauer
story: In the Land of Armadillos author: Helen Maryles Shankman year: 2016 where: bedroom, sore throat, soaring heart note: the paperback and hardback have different names a line: “There was something glamorous about him, Max thought, a certain inborn elegance, as if he belonged to a lost branch of a forgotten monarchy.”