short story
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100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-six
Samantha Neugebauer
story: In the Land of Armadillos author: Helen Maryles Shankman year: 2016 where: bedroom, sore throat, soaring heart note: the paperback and hardback have different names a line: “There was something glamorous about him, Max thought, a certain inborn elegance, as if he belonged to a lost branch of a forgotten monarchy.”
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100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-two
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Way We Live Now author: Susan Sontag year: 1987 where: Abu Dhabi, after lunch note: my experiences witnessing death have been much lonelier, full of less people, the streams of visitors tapering off as things get bad, then a parade of interest and sympathy when things are gone and orderly again a line: “But this isn’t going…