New Orleans Noir

I folded the check into my wallet. It was five times what Mrs. Pierce was paying me.

单篇收买转折干净，合集总弧松，plot 84。

Lily swayed like a cobra as she mouthed the words in a slow, woozy monotone. “She turned him against me.”

反派声口立住，cast 86。

They kissed and embraced under the moonlight in the Mustang parked in the Dead Zone with an urgency like it was wartime. And it was.

灾后短篇节拍紧，pace 88。

One or two other things I know about New Orleans is the pull of the past. Never been anywhere the past had such a pull on a person as here.

城市句准，prose 89。

Before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleanians used to joke about not really being a part of America, being, in fact, a tiny Third World country unto ourselves.

城市身份即世界，world 93。

And proud of it, we used to say.

导言钩住灾后讽刺，hook 91。

Hell no. If yellow fever, fire, and Betsy didn’t wipe us out, Katrina won’t either. But the government might.

灾害史叠 noir，innov 90。

Homicide. Our day starts when your day ends. Some of us have that on a T-shirt.

黑色幽默收束合集，ending 87。