Short Stories
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300 short stories:: story 117
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Country Boy author: Yusuf al-Sibai year: ? (early 20th century) where: home, kitchen table (again!) note: translated by the great Denys Johnson-Davis, who was the first, really, to recognize the explosion of Arabic short story writing following WWII a line: “Though he looked silent and quiet, it was a case of still waters running deep. With closed eyes and lowered head, all shyness and diffidence, he would sit beside his father, oozing innocence, when all the…
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300 short stories:: story 116
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “I Only Came to Use the Phone” author: Gabriel García Márquez year: 1992 where: home, kitchen table note: undercurrents reminiscent of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper a line: “He gave her a bishop’s blessing from the door, asked her to trust him, and disappeared forever.”
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 