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400 short stories: story 302
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Girls, At Play” author: Celeste Ng year: 2010 where: It is almost 6PM, but it feels like mid-afternoon. note: First-person plural story. One part of this story feels like the scene in Clueless with Cher gives Brittany Murphy a makeover. a line: “Don’t tell anyone if you hate it, if his tongue feels like a dead…
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300 short stories: story 297
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Homage for Isaac Babel” author: Doris Lessing year: 1958 where: Al Reem note: This story has such a curious premise and there is virtually no backstory for the characters or their relationships to one another, which makes me think of Hemingway, of course. a line: “Philip rescued her by saying with disdain: ‘Some people don’t know…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 