No. 2 The Murder-light Motel

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Like the rest of the world, I spent the majority of 2020-2021 in lockdown. Traveling to exotic lands meant entering rooms in my own home that hadn’t been cleaned since the Cretaceous Period.

So, when restrictions loosened enough to leave the house, my family of four—my husband of twenty-five plus years, Tim, and our two kids, Faith and Aidan, 18 and 15 r…