Short Stories
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300 short stories:: story 181
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Blue Tree” author: Rick Bass year: 2014-ish where: sofa and sleepy note: This story encapsulates the impermanence of things, things like youth, places, and moments, but also–the pleasure of reading a short story. I’m reading and rereading Rick Bass this week while pondering the destruction of Joshua Tree National Park and other parks…
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300 short stories:: story 180
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Cream” author: Haruki Murakami year: 2019 where: in the bedroom note: There wasn’t a cat. a line: “In my life, whenever an inexplicable, illogical, disturbing event takes place (I’m not saying that it happens often, but it has a few times), I always come back to that circle—the circle with many centers but no circumference.”
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 