Siblings

300 short stories: story 268

Samantha Neugebauer

July 10, 2019

story: “Contract Overseas” author: Mia Alvar year: 2015 where: Bagdad Theater on Hawthorne Blvd. note: I love brother sister sibling stories. This collection was recommended to me in Aspen. a line: “After the cafés closed, they spilled into the dormitories to prolong such life-and-death debates as whether literature had social duties, as Salvador Lopez believed, or…

2019 short stories

Contract Overseas, In the Country, Mia Alvar, Philippines, Portland, short fiction, Short Stories, short story, Siblings, Tin House
300 short stories: story 247

Samantha Neugebauer

June 7, 2019

story: “Fire Horse” author: Karen Shepard year: 2017 where: Home, in bed note: I love this story, though I hesitate to call it one story. It feels like two stories about the same characters. Margaret Atwood has two stories like that in Bluebeard’s Egg, but she chose to split them into two titles and group…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, american literature, Bluebeard’s Egg, Chinese Literature, Fire Horse, Karen Shepard, Margaret Atwood, Mothers and Daughters, Short Stories, Siblings, UAE