Summary

In the Section returning to 1978, the story returns to Rothstein’s house. Morris had not expected so much blood and gore when he shot the author. Before he left he wanted to go through Rothstein’s desk and see what he had there, but Morris figured if he had the writer’s notebooks that was enough. He reminisces about how he would have liked to have had the expensive notebooks that Rothstein wrote in when he was serving time in the juvenile facility. He had even offered to give a guard a blow job in exchange for more paper but he was only laughed at and punched in the face until his nose broke. He had been sentenced to serve time there because he had gotten drunk and broken into a house. He did not even remember what he thought he...