Tom Barbash
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300 short stories: story 272
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “How to Fall” author: Tom Barbash year: 2013 where: Gold sofa note: Skiing is always something that always seems so far away from my reality. a line: “I rode up to the snow-blessed hills of Vermont on a ski trip for singles. I did.” theme(s): Break-up, loss, grief, dating
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300 short stories: story 264
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Balloon Party” author: Tom Barbash year: 2014 where: Aspen note: from Stay Up With Me a line: “He liked the style of his parents’ friends, their breadth of experience and flowery elegance; their love of old jazz standards and good stiff drinks. Not infrequently Timkin wished that he’d lived in their day because he didn’t…