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...philosophy class ends, and several young men offer an impromptu campus tour: This lot is where the new high-tech center will be built. This circular driveway is the main outdoor hangout. And in this otherwise empty dormitory, a lone television set is playing. The TV, visible through a window, glows on, always tuned to the same channel, day and night. "After the second murder, they evacuated the building," says one of the students through an interpreter. "And they forgot to turn it off. Kind of eerie...
...last time Fanny Sobero saw her husband Guillermo, it was late afternoon on May 23 at their suburban home in the chaparral-covered hills of Corona, California. Kids were shooting hoops in the fading light, and Sobero, in khaki shorts and a T shirt, was out in the driveway, slinging a yellow backpack into his Toyota pickup. Fanny thought her husband was heading up to Lake Havasu in Arizona to do some fishing and celebrate his 40th birthday, but she wasn't sure. She and Sobero didn't speak to each other much, unless it was about their impending divorce...
...never played the game. My brothers did. They all picked up the sport in high school, and the school I attended did not have a team. The best I managed was strapping on some makeshift pads to rob my friends in the driveway. Hockey, however, remained important because it was about family...
...other day, walking on the road, I noticed that another car had taken up residence in the Hermit's driveway, newer than the Falcon - a Ford sedan, maybe 20 years old, of an indeterminate orange-beige-bronze color that rental car companies used to buy by the thousands long ago. The Hermit has a companion, I decided, jokingly. He has a lover...
...another mysterious piece of evidence turned up: a large plastic trash bag dumped by the front door of the house, its contents spilled. Both cars were in the driveway. Next day, I noticed that animals - raccoons and possums - had gotten into the trash and scattered...