Summary

In “Olive Brine,” Moses gets a room at the Vacca Vale motel, the Wooden Lady. Alone in his room, he feels hungover from his “interaction with Father Tim” (200). He drinks and looks at his blog. The blog is based around Moses’s notion of the Toll, the endurance of “alienating discomfort” (202). A new message in Moses’s inbox titled Game of Clue, interrupts his thoughts of “what he is about to do to Joan” (202).

In “Game of Clue,” Moses reads the Game of Clue email from an anonymous sender. In the email, the writer describes “three symptoms” he has “been experiencing” (205). One of the symptoms involves obsessive thoughts of killing his wife. The writer blames his wife’s friend Valentina, believing she has been planting weapons from the Game of Clue in his house. Terrified of what...