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Rebecca Makkai “A Story for Your Daughters, A Story for Your Sons” | Short Story #336
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “A Story for Your Daughters, A Story for Your Sons” author: Rebecca Makkai year: 2020 where: Quarantine note: This is a new story from the Spring 2020 issue of The Paris Review; the first paragraph is gorgeous and reads like a fairy tale. For people interested in stories of female utopias (Charlotte Perkins Gillman,…
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300 short stories: story 278
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Mr. Wu” author: Ottessa Moshfegh year: 2016 where: Yamanote Atelier, Dubai note: An earlier version of this story is on The Paris Review and is called “Disgust”…I’m glad I read it with its revised title, because the original title is too leading. a line: “More than anything in the world, perhaps more than winning her heart, he…