A Desert Of Pure Feeling
Lucy Patterson is in Las Vegas for a writer's conference. She is still grieving the loss of son who died in Guatemala eight years earlier. She declines to comment when the session presenter asks a question about terrorism. A terrorist had taken her only son of this one thing she is certain.
She'd come back to Vegas frequently since spending time in the summer as a child. This time Lucy takes lodging at the Tally Ho motel. She hears arguing outside...