A Secret Message Sent Me Home To A Lawyer And Police Waiting At The Airport And The Truth Made Me Collapse

We are a deeply uncertain thing. I’d bought it in a used bookshop for four dollars because it had made me feel, at twenty-three, like uncertainty was perhaps something you could inhabit rather than something you had to escape.

I thought about Raymond Holt in his study in Simsbury, playing chess with a man in Vermont he’d never met in person, watching continue reading …