Short Stories
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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 299
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Blue” author: David Brooks year: 1985 where: kitchen, Big Gate napping note: Brooks is a poet turned prose writer, though in 1989, he wrote about the breakdown of genre. This is one of his first short stories. Something about this story also reminds me of the night Obama won the election. a line: “How so many…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 