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300 short stories: story 293
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Other Wife” (“La femme cachée”) author: Colette year: 1924 where: the Ikea kitchen table note: I love food descriptions in stories. Especially if the food oder is antiquated or peculiar to me. Also, this story was magnificent. a line: “Immodest without knowing it, everything about her bore the overly conspicuous marks of extreme happiness.” theme(s): Marriage,…
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300 short stories: story 292
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Grasshopper and The Bell Cricket” author: Yasunari Kawabata year: 1980s (?) where: bedroom, Abu Dhabi note: Kawabata was the first Japanese person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. a line: “Even if they remembered forever that Fujio had given her the cricket and Kiyoko had accepted it, not even in dreams would Fujio…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 