Chapter 7. Choir of Phantoms
When it occurred to Lindsey that the motel standing before her represented her last resort, she found the pun already caught up in her web of thoughts. The phrase turned over in her mind compulsively, and ultimately produced the notion that, in some other life, if she owned a place like this, that’s what she’d name it, The Last Resort. And in a half-hearted attempt at smarm-adman inflection she said aloud to no one, An all-inclusive vacationland for addicts, low-lifes, and sex trade entrepreneurs.
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