Short Stories
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300 short stories:: story 103
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Train to Harbin author: Asako Serizawa year: 2016 where: Abu Dhabi, my gold chaise lounge note: This is a story both epic and intimately personal about a Japanese doctor stationed in Pingfang (now Northern China, then the Japanese puppet-state Manchukuo) during WWII, where terrible war crimes, including human experimentation, were committed. a line: “Perhaps it is simply the mind, which, in its inability to accept a fact, returns to it, sharpening the details, resolving…
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300 short stories:: story 102
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Uglypuss author: Margaret Atwood (pre-The Handmaid’s Tale) year: 1983 where: london, black coffee note: this story is featured in the phenomenal collection, Bluebeard’s Egg. It also has an intriguing POV swap near the end. a line: “Tonight, she feels dingy, old. Soon she will start getting into the firming cream; she will start worrying about her eyelids. Beginning…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 