Joyland, livre ebook

Also by Emily Schultz FICTION The Blondes (2012) Heaven Is Small (2009) Black Coffee Night (2002) POETRY Songs for the Dancing Chicken (2007) “The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.” — Ronald Reagan Joyland Gamebook The things no one knows. Not even the best players. Chris Lane stockpiles facts to use, like weapons, against his father, in a showdown that will never occur. He cruises through like a digitized arrow, meant, somehow, to represent a human. (50 points) Tammy Lane is eleven and a half and she has already fallen in love many times. She does not yet know what love is, but the blue estuaries in her heart are large enough to have carried half a dozen devotions already. (75 points) In 1984, Joyland video arcade closes its doors. At one time, Space Invaders was its most popular game — in spite of a dank row of boogers left anonymously along the machine’s back edge. (100 points) Unrequited love will almost always lead to violence. Some may know this, but in the heat of the moment, this information will be misplaced. (500 points) Somewhere in the rustbelt of Ontario, there is a girl named Genevieve Cartier. You will never meet her.