“Chloe, that letter is a bluff and it is not even a well-made one.

Why did you move out?”

And I said, “Because it was on letterhead.”

She was quiet for a second.

Then she said: “Yes.

That’s what the letterhead is for.”

Part Twenty-Four: The Motel

I spent nine nights at the Ridgeview Motor Inn on Route 42 at fifty-four dollars a night.