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The Long-Term Tenet by Tara Laskowski from the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July August 2019 edition.

The police came on a Tuesday afternoon in the dead middle of the New Mexico summer.

Raleigh was at the Jubilee, so it was just May the front office of the Kiwa come and stay in,

swatting flies with the triple A brochure and cracking pistachios in front of the

rotating floor fan.

When she heard Lee's name, the hair on the back of Nae's mech fanned, and she felt a trickle

like a daddy long legs falling down her spine.

Yes, she said.

Yes, room 312 in the back.

They wanted to know if he was there. Could they see the room, please? Was that

possible? There were two of them. One, a skinny white boy with fuzz for a moustache and fidgety,

so fidgety he made her nervous, and the other a rounded Mexican, hefty like a sack of ground

maze, his gray stubble and white on his shelf of a chin.

They were polite, but there was a tension in the air, snapping around in between the

bursts of radiostatic on the thin ones walkie-talkie.

Well, my husband, she trailed off.

Her husband, what, exactly?

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