Short Stories
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300 short stories:: story 166
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Lost Order” author: Rivka Galchen year: 2014 where: casa dolce casa note: I can’t recall the stimulus for purchasing Galchen’s book, American Innovations, and this makes me sad. I hate forgetting. This story has a ring like Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing”…a ringing call. The main character also feels like a more morose…
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300 short stories:: story 164
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Great Wall of China” author: Kafka year: published 1931, written 1917 where: outside, nice autumn weather in the Dhabs note: a story about nation-building, oh brilliant brilliant Kafka a line: “In this respect of course our own age had a great advantage over that long-past one; almost every educated contemporary was a mason by profession…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 