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Joe Meno’s unique writing style, coupled with his realistic, yet wholly strange characters, make for a fascinating and entertaining read, in my opinion. I hope you enjoy today’s Story of the Day, as well as other work by Joe Meno. This story was originally published in a fwriction favorite, Annalemma:

The office girl and you are the only third-shift phone operators for a very small novelty music company which produces muzak anthologies of various pop songs, the kind that are often advertised on television very late at night. “It is an Acceptable Time for Midnight Romance” is one of their albums, as is “Quiet Moments For Awkward Lovers like You and Me,” which features many, many numbers by instrumental artists imitating modern pop songs. It is your job to answer the wondrous questions these poor somnambulists have as they order, questions like, Do you know much I love that song? Do you?