Short Stories
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300 short stories:: story 236
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Long-Distance Runner” author: Grace Paley year: 1974 where: The Louvre Abu Dhabi & home note: In this story, Paley reverses traditional black-white female race relations. It is a great story to read in conversation with Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’ non-fiction book They Were Here Property. a line: “You in my house…. You do as I say.…
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300 short stories:: story 234
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Aquacero” author: Patricia Engel year: 2019 where: Dubai at Big Gate’s, then at home note: This story was selected for the 2019 O. Henry Prize collection (first appeared in the Kenyon Review). a line: “’Survival requires different things of different people.’ I don’t know where in me this came from. It was something I hadn’t even…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 