The Points Between: Chapter Nine

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The Chapel of Light

The motel room is clean, as far as Matthew can tell. That, along with a flat screen TV, is the extent of anything that could be called amenities. It doesn’t even have one of those single-serve coffee makers.

A box of half-eaten greasy pizza lies open on one of the room’s two twin beds, a coke sits open on the nightstand between them, perspiration collecting at its base. A w...