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  1. Joe Meno _ The Boy Detective Fails

    Perhaps Effie Mumford was only trying to prove something she already knew: that, like all animals, she was at the whim of the general disorder and unimaginative meanness of the world surrounding her.
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  2. Joe Meno _ Demons in the Spring

    You are saying, I would like to but I could never forgive you or myself. I am saying, if you let me kneel before you once, I can live without forgiveness for a very long time.
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  3. Joe Meno _ Demons in the Spring

    This man has the same kind of charm, the kind that suggests weakness, the kind that indicates how sad he will always make her feel. There is something dependable, unfailing in this sort of sadness.
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  4. Joe Meno _ The Great Perhaps

    For years, Thisbe will later think of that one moment in the field as the only time she was ever sure about anything in her life.
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  5. Joe Meno _ Hairstyles of the Damned

    I was a shy kid and I was afraid what I said sounded stupid, so I hardly ever said anything. I was the third wheel. Fifth wheel? I was the fucking wheel you didn't really need, but I still hung around. I thought maybe my silence would one day impress somebody. As of yet, it hadn't done much for me.
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  6. Joe Meno _ Demons in the Spring

    What Mr. Albee most desires is for the Model UN, the entire group of them, all eleven, even the scoundrel Quinn, to be there waiting, when he gets home each dreary night, and there again when he awakes in the morning, all of them politely debating one another with their resplendent voices, their hearts-which have not yet been broken by anything more serious than an unrequited crush or an unfair grade-quietly aglow with everything.
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  7. Joe Meno _ The Boy Detective Fails

    Хотите верьте, хотите нет, но в нашем городе есть одно место, откуда по ночам все еще видны звезды. Оно осталось одно на весь город - такое волшебное место, не затянутое облаками фабричного дыма, не закрытое хаотическим нагромождением небоскребов. Это самое лучшее место для полуночных прогулок и разговоров шепотом. На холме за городским садом, где есть небольшая полянка с видом на статую безрукого генерала на бронзовом скакуне, - большинство из нас вспоминает потом это место, как место, где мы в первый раз осознали, что мы, может быть, влюблены.
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  8. Joe Meno _ The Boy Detective Fails

    Почему, когда мы становимся взрослыми, нас так пугают загадки и тайны? Не потому ли, что с возрастом наши миры превращаются в миры повседневной рутины, безопасности и порядка? Не потому ли, что мы утверждаемся в мысли, что знаем ответы на все вопросы - вернее, ответ всегда только один: никакое сокровище из тайника, никакой потайной ход, никакая зашифрованная записка не спасет нас от безысходной тоски в самый черный из черных дней? Почему мы так яростно сопротивляемся вере, что где-то рядом есть мир, о котором мы ничего не знаем? Неужели тешить себя надеждой - или даже иллюзией надежды - это страшнее, чем принять жизнь такой, какая она есть?
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  9. Joe Meno _ The Boy Detective Fails

    In our town-our town of shadows, our town of mystery-it seems our buildings have, without reason, begun to disappear completely. Still full of their loyal inhabitants, the buildings and the people all disintegrate soundlessly. The air has been hard to breathe, full of regret and the glassy voices of the unsurprised dead. Our commuters have begun carrying photographs of their loved ones with them to work. On the bus, we look at each other, pictures of our sad wives and doubtful children huddled close to our chests, quietly imagining the silent elaborations of our own deaths. We are disappointed coming home that evening because the many photos betray our cowardice: We live in a town that is disappearing, and worse, like the buildings, our hope is gone and we are no longer surprised by anything."
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  10. Joe Meno _ How the Hula Girl Sings

    A place of a king of quiet villainy and secret lust. A place where the dirty dreams of every twelve-year-old man-child were visible on the bus station's bathroom walls in hand-scrawled tattoos of ladies with oversized breasts and inappropriate female genitalia, inaccurately portrayed as a singularly dangerous triangle of doom. Those kinds of drawings set me up for a world of confusion.
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  11. Joe Meno _ How the Hula Girl Sings

    A fragrance of cold rose petals and copper. Like flowers in your bloody throat.
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  12. Joe Meno _ How the Hula Girl Sings

    Those days were like a crown of gold over her head. Her hair was a knotted nest of some tiny white and yellow flowers with little bluebells wrapped inside her curls. Maybe she'd bring him a sandwich or a bottle of Coca-Cola, all cold and full of beads of ice along the side. Wasn't it all so pretty? Wasn't it all so nice?
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