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400 short stories: story 302
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Girls, At Play” author: Celeste Ng year: 2010 where: It is almost 6PM, but it feels like mid-afternoon. note: First-person plural story. One part of this story feels like the scene in Clueless with Cher gives Brittany Murphy a makeover. a line: “Don’t tell anyone if you hate it, if his tongue feels like a dead…
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400 short stories: story 301
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” author: Flannery O’Connor year: 1953 where: Sum of Us note: I read this story real slow today, drinking lemon ice tea. Maybe the slowest I ever read it, and in this slowness, it felt more violent than ever. a line: “Behind them the line of woods gaped like a…