HE WALKED STRANGERS THROUGH MY LAKE HOUSE LIKE HE OWNED IT

manila folder wedged sideways at the back. Bank logo in the corner. My name on the tab. Walter T. Kerrick.

I stood there a long time on that concrete floor.

Inside the folder was a loan pre-qualification packet from a credit union in Burnsville. Two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Listed collateral: a property described in language I recognized immediately continue reading …