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300 short stories:: story 155
Samantha Neugebauer
story: A Simple Heart author: Gustave Flaubert year: 1877 where: home, golden chaise note: It is fun to read this the same week as reading Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier and revisiting The Communist Manifesto for work. a line: “It was a bull, which had been hidden by the fog. He came towards the two women. Madame…
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300 short stories:: story 154
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Poor Girl author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya year: 2018 where: desk, work work note: surprises at every turn! (translated) a line: “Not only did she keep the house and work, she also looked after her mother-in-law, a former language-arts teacher, who was crazy about the theatre and literary readings, enjoyed the courtship of elderly military officers, and regularly came home…