INT. NOVELIST'S HOME OFFICE - DAY
If front of room is the big window to the up-close Organ Mountains east of Las Cruces, New Mexico. the old wooden desk facing it is at back of room, near open door to hallway. Swivel chair between the desk's drawers. Framed map TBD on wall behind desk.
From chair POV, loaded bookshelf against left wall. Model sailboat on top shelf. Old leather couch against right wall, under framed print of Ad Reinhardt Red Painting. Navajo rug on hardwood. Cactus sculpture in left corner near window, stool and telescope in right corner near window.
Printer on stand to right of desk, albums fill the stand's open space. Turntable atop mini-fridge left of desk. Speakers in each of the room's upper corners.
On desk: globe, pens and pencils in holder near short stack of yellow legal pads, white-new baseball, two 8x10 framed photographs - one of a MAN, mid-40s, and a 12-year-old Chloe in the front seat of a roller-coaster in steep descent, their faces expressing their excitement; and another of a WOMAN, 30, with a 7-YEAR-OLD BOY, flying a kite at a beach - and a laptop with a screensaver of Chloe in a wetsuit, smiling at the camera from the wave she is surfing, Pismo Beach pier in the background.
FAINT SONG OF CRISSAL THRASHER before HUNTER, 50 - running shoes, jeans, untucked dress shirt - enters. He is the man in the roller coaster photo. He goes to desk, opens computer to file text he saves, turns off computer, leaves into hall.
