stories
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300 short stories:: story 234
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Aquacero” author: Patricia Engel year: 2019 where: Dubai at Big Gate’s, then at home note: This story was selected for the 2019 O. Henry Prize collection (first appeared in the Kenyon Review). a line: “’Survival requires different things of different people.’ I don’t know where in me this came from. It was something I hadn’t even…
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300 short stories:: story 206
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Dramas” author: Edna O’Brien year: 1989 where: mio ufficio note: from the Paris Review a line: “When the new shopkeeper arrived in the village he aroused great curiosity along with some scorn. He was deemed refined because his fingernails looked as if they had been varnished a tinted ivory. “