The New Yorker
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400 short stories: story 311
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Stone” author: Louise Erdrich year: 2019 where: Happiness Island note: “This story is about finding solace in an entity that isn’t human.” -Erdrich a line: “A stone is, in its own way, a living thing, not a biological being but one with a history far beyond our capacity to understand or even imagine.” & “A stone…
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300 short stories: story 266
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Everyone Cried” author: Lydia Davis year: 2019 where: Our Tiny House in Oregon note: From the 2019 NYer online Flash Fiction series a line: “After lunch, we usually felt better, and the office was filled with its normal hum and bustle, people carrying folders and walking briskly here and there, sudden bursts of laughter rising from…