I paid the four hundred dollar deposit out of my own account in April and told you I’d got a grant.”

I had been in Albuquerque for two weeks and in Tulare for nine days before that and in Yuma for four days before that.

She told me that at twenty to two in the morning on Friday the thirteenth of September 2024 and I have never once been able to make it sound like anything other than what it is.

Part Eight: The Folder