INT. READING ROOM - SUNSET
Small and cozy. Loaded bookshelf, comfy high-back chair and lampstand at window to small yard and sun setting on the big Ashe juniper tree on the other side of her fence. Foglost on lampstand. FLOOR CREAK a moment before Ruth enters, phone in hand, sits in chair, puts phone on lampstand, picks up Foglost, opens to page-mark near the end, reads, startled when her PHONE RINGTONES GOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER SONG.
She picks up, looks at screen, stares and smiles at photograph of Tom and Hunter standing next to each other at the stone wall that fences Hunter's back yard, the Organ Mountains in the background. She sets phone down, picks up Foglost, page-marked near the end, opens to the About the Author note on the back flap, stares at photo of Hunter in plaid flannel and jeans semi-smiling at the camera, the snow-capped Organ Mountains behind him, above the blurb:
H.C. Hardyn is the author of two other novels, Trabuco and Isleton, and a collection of short stories, Bumps, Bruises, Burns and Band-Aids.
She opens Foglost to the page-mark, reads, looks out the window and smiles at the FAINT CALL OF A GLOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER.