HE WALKED STRANGERS THROUGH MY LAKE HOUSE LIKE HE OWNED IT

because I had read it in my own closing paperwork eight weeks before. Lot 14, Bjorklund Point, Lake Vermilion.

The applicant signature line was filled in. Gareth M. Halloran. In his looping, left-leaning hand.

Below it, in the same hand, on the co-applicant line: Walter T. Kerrick.

Except I had never signed a goddamn thing.

I stood there with my knees continue reading …