Short Stories
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400 short stories: story 313
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “A Dream of Men” author: Mary Gaitskill year: 1988 where: Home, kitchen table note: Apparently this story is discussed by Ben Marcus and Deborah Treisman on an episode of The New Yorker: Fiction podcast; I’ll have to give it a listen this week. a line: “Ever since then, Laura had felt good around Dr. Ramirez.…
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400 short stories: story 311
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Stone” author: Louise Erdrich year: 2019 where: Happiness Island note: “This story is about finding solace in an entity that isn’t human.” -Erdrich a line: “A stone is, in its own way, a living thing, not a biological being but one with a history far beyond our capacity to understand or even imagine.” & “A stone…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 