SLOW SEASON

Synopsis

The Anchorage closes the second week of November. Six people stay on through March to keep the pipes from freezing and the roof from going. Ruth Coyne takes the front desk. Wade Toomey takes maintenance. Nobody asks either of them anything. That is the appeal of the job. Ruth is married in a way she has not explained to anyone at the Anchorage. Wade was tried last spring and acquitted, which turned out to be a different thing from cleared. In December a guest checks in with a newspaper, and by the middle of January there is nothing left to not explain. The resort opens the first of April. That is four months to decide what this is.

Who this is about

Ruth Coyne runs the front desk of a shuttered resort on the North Carolina coast from November to March. Wade Toomey does maintenance. Neither of them applied for a job. They applied for four months.

What goes wrong

A guest checks in at Christmas with a newspaper. By January the whole staff of six knows what Wade was acquitted of, and knows the acquittal settled nothing.

What's at stake

Ruth is still married. Wade is still the man in the newspaper. Whatever they build in the off-season has to survive the day the resort opens and other people arrive.

Why it keeps going

Each episode is one more week of the closed season, one more thing neither of them has to explain yet, and one week fewer before March.

Takeaway

An empty place is the only kind that lets two people find out who they are without an audience.

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