Short Stories

  • 300 short stories:: story 119

    Samantha Neugebauer

    story: Orange World author: Karen Russell  year:  2018 where: Q train  note: I admit, I was confused by this a few times, even frustrated, but read it quickly without pause, enjoying the confusion, or at least, not letting the confusion bleed into annoyance. Rosemary’s Baby comes to mind. It ends strong.   : a line: “Joy threatens to take the…

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  • 300 short stories:: story 118

    Samantha Neugebauer

    story: Fear  author: Lydia Davis  year:  1992 where: East Village, NYC  note:o“When Davis was younger, the obsessions of her narrators tended to be amorous; now they are philosophical.” –Dana Goodyear  a line: “Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly.”

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