INT. NOVELIST'S HOME OFFICE - DAY
Old wooden desk near open door to hallway faces window view to up-close Organ Mountains east of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Wall to left of desk is loaded bookshelf, wall to right features framed print of an Ad Reinhardt Red Painting above an old leather sofa. Navajo rug on hardwood. Old California Angels ballcap and wide brim sunhat on rack near door. Telescope and stool near window on other side of sofa, rocking chair and lamp near window on other side of bookshelf, the top shelf of which feature a model schooner sailing ship. Antique typewriter on the shelf below. Old NFL football on bottom shelf.
Printer on stand near desk populated by globe, pencils and pens in New Mexico State University coffee mug atop stack of yellow legal pads, hardcover copy of Joseph Heller's novel Something Happened, a baseball, framed photograph of Chloe smiling and throwing a peace sign at the camera from where is "tubed" in the wave she is surfing, and a laptop with screensaver featuring Chloe in a selfie she has taken that includes a man sitting next to her in the front seat of a roller-coaster car in the middle of steep and swift descent, their faces gleeful.
This man is HUNTER, 51, who enters from hall in running shoes, faded jeans, untucked dress shirt, opens laptop to page of text we see too briefly to discern before he closes that file, powers down laptop, leaves into hall.
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