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300 short stories:: story 181
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Blue Tree” author: Rick Bass year: 2014-ish where: sofa and sleepy note: This story encapsulates the impermanence of things, things like youth, places, and moments, but also–the pleasure of reading a short story. I’m reading and rereading Rick Bass this week while pondering the destruction of Joshua Tree National Park and other parks…
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300 short stories:: story 179
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Meals for Mourners/兄弟” author: K Ming Chang year: 2019 where: around the house note: from the Nashville Review a line: “She wears her scarves even in the shower: checkered wool ones, polka-dotted cotton ones, infinity scarves in colors that scratch at your eyes, yellow and green and pink. Mama always says the best way to hide something…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 