Short Stories
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300 short stories: story 240
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “House of Women” author: Susan Minot year: 1991 where: the gold sofa note: This story was brilliant not only for its evocative descriptions of coastal nature, but also because of its blatant realism about how women talking together can manage to “resurrect” our ex-boyfriends, lovers, and husbands. a line: “By the time the thunder had grown…
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300 short stories:: story 239
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Breathe” author: Rachel Heng year: 2018 where: morning with coffee note: I love trees! How simple, how true a line: “But what if we are wrong? What if the hubris is justified, if this is indeed different from the lava and ice that we have faced before? What if this does not pass?” theme(s): Nature,…