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twelve Jews to be run over by a locomotive project/stunt-story

Dieter heard that a thirteen-hour television project about the Occupation was to be launched in the spring; he had seen the outline.

He said, “For the moment they just need a few people to be deported and to jump off the train.”

Some old-timers heard Dieter say, “They want to deport the Poles…

—p.185 Paris Stories Baum, Gabriel, 1935–( ) (171) by Mavis Gallant
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he had acquired a variety of victim experiences project/stunt-story

“That sign was the end of life as we knew it in the sixties,” said Dieter Pohl. He was a colonel now, and as fussy as a monarch at a review about a badge misplaced or a button undone. Gabriel had no equivalent staircase to climb; who ever has heard of a victim's being promoted? Still, he had acquir…

—p.182 Baum, Gabriel, 1935–( ) (171) by Mavis Gallant
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sixty-five is your next step project/stunt-story

Until he could no longer write letters, Gabriel's uncle nagged him with useless advice. Most of it was about money. Owing to Gabriel's inability to produce his father's marriage certificate (in fact, he never tried), his uncle could not in all conscience leave him Baum possessions. It was up to Gab…

—p.177 Baum, Gabriel, 1935–( ) (171) by Mavis Gallant
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like that of a man seeking nourishment project/stunt-story

David Clark was neither strong nor handsome, but the bewildered look that had blighted his boyhood was long submerged now in a face that suggested intelligence and humor. For years he had made it a point of honor not to mess around with the girls in the classes he taught. “There isn’t any sport in …

—p.203 The Collected Stories of Richard Yates A Natural Girl (200) by Richard Yates
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are you even reading this? topic/heartbreak

Did I want children, David? I know I always told you I didn’t, but did I, secretly? If not, why did I continue sobbing all the way back to the hotel, all the way through the dose, to the point of addressing the question to you, imaginary you? Are you glad we didn’t? Are you going to do it with . . …

—p.215 Granta 148: Summer Fiction Schenectady (207) missing author