Short Stories
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300 short stories: story 243
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “It’s Bad Luck to Die” author: Elizabeth McCracken year: 1993 where: Saadiyat Beach Club poolside with Big Gate note: I really liked the complexity of the mother character in this story. a line: “My life drove my mother crazy. All she wanted was for me to become mirculously blank. I broke her heart–that was my…
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300 short stories: story 241
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” author: Denis Johnson year: 2018 where: Le Brioche note: This is the title story from Johnson’s collection and is an assigned reading for my workshop class in Aspen Words. a line: “Rather than memorializing him, we found ourselves asking, ‘Who the hell was this guy?” theme(s): Aging, death, career
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 