North Carolina Boundary Lines Drawn on an Oak Desk

on her leather notepad. “Clara, look at this entry from three weeks ago.”

I set the box down and adjusted my reading glasses, leaning over her shoulder to look at the blue ink log.

“The registration log has a gap,” she said, pointing to a missing line between the tenth and twelfth of October.

“That log is always sequential,” I said, tracing the empty continue reading …