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300 short stories:: story 233
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Confirmation” author: Alina Grabowski year: 2018 where: Mio Ufficio note: The writer’s first publication. 1st Person Plural. a line: “Whenever Lucy acolytes we sit in the front row, pulling faces and making the sign language word for fine: one palm held to the chest, thumb touching breastbone before the hand hinges forward. This is the only word…
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300 short stories:: story 231
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” author: Amy Hempel year: 1985 where: Al Reem Island note: This is Hempel’s first published story. When the narrator says, “I remember only the useless things I hear”, it reminded me of the mother in “Mercedes Kane”who laments in the first paragraph about what she can and cannot…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 