{"product_id":"maeve-of-ireland-the-girl-who-never-gives-the-short-answer","title":"Maeve of Ireland — The Girl Who Never Gives the Short Answer","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaeve of Ireland — The Girl Who Never Gives the Short Answer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAge:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11     \u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve has never answered a simple question simply in her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer mother knows this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer father knows this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer teacher learned it in September.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Maeve, why are you late?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are several possible answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe correct one is:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI missed the bus.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve begins:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Well, it started with the crow.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer teacher closes her eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf course it did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApparently there had been a crow sitting on the garden wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe crow had something shiny in its beak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve needed to know what it was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis led to an investigation involving the hedge, one muddy shoe, and a button that may or may not have belonged to a sailor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Why a sailor?” her teacher asks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It had an anchor on it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It could have come from a coat.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A sailor's coat.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time Maeve finishes, nobody remembers the original question...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis happens frequently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve doesn't exactly make things up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe prefers to say she \u003cstrong\u003enotices possibilities.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn abandoned cottage isn't empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone lived there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone looked through those windows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone stood at that door waiting for somebody to come home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve wants to know.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn old photograph tucked inside a book isn't just an old photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho put it there?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid they forget it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr did they leave it deliberately for someone else to find?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer older brother says Maeve could invent a mystery around a teaspoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve considers this a challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo days later, she places a teaspoon on his pillow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttached is a note:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer brother finds her downstairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What is this?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve looks at the spoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen at him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You tell me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe stares at her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve holds out for almost thirty seconds before collapsing into laughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer grandmother is the only person who never tells Maeve to get to the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fact, her grandmother is worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve will begin:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Once there was a woman who lived near the sea—”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd her grandmother interrupts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What sort of house?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve thinks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Stone.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Old or new?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Old.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Chimney?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Two.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Good. Carry on.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis can continue for hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne rainy afternoon, Maeve finds her grandmother sitting beside the window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tell me a story,” Gran says.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Which one?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One I don't know.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve stops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat's different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsually Maeve takes something real and wonders what might have happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow she has nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo crow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo button.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo mysterious photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust a blank page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I don't know one.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGran looks surprised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You know hundreds.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I know pieces.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That's how stories begin.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve sits down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOutside, rain taps against the window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe thinks about the old cottage near the hill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one with no roof.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What if,” Maeve begins slowly, “there was once a girl who lived in a house where the roof disappeared every night?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGran says nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaeve continues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The house wasn't broken. 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