GS-I continued from the uploaded story. The setup, characters, and fin…

for public records is window three, and the woman who works it has a jar of butterscotch candy.

I gave her the parcel number off our tax bill.

She brought up the 1984 deed on the screen, turned the monitor toward me, and I read the granting clause the way I have read 10,000 insurance denials—slowly, out loud, moving my finger.

“To Warren D. Frasier and continue reading …