scene 6

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INT. NOVELIST'S HOME OFFICE - DAY

Adobe. 

HUNTER, 50ish - running shoes, faded jeans, untucked dress shirt, glasses - types at the laptop on the old wooden desk aimed at the big window view to the up-close Organ Mountains. Blank whiteboard with markers in tray on wall behind him, near a hat rack loaded with baseball caps near open door to hall.

Navajo rug on hardwood. One wall is bookshelves, across the room from an old leather sofa under a framed reproduction of an Ad Reinhardt Red Painting. Telescope and stool in one corner by the window, saguaro cactus sculpture in the other. Books share shelves with model sailing ship, wood owl, antique typewriter, and bronze Smiling Buddha.

Printer on stand next to desk. Laptop shares desk with NMSU coffee mug holding pens and pencils near a stack of yellow legal pads, a white-new baseball, a hardcover of the Evan S. Connell book Son of the Morning Star, and a framed photograph of a 16-year-old girl smiling and flashing a peace sign at the up-close camera that has captured her "tubed" in the wave she is surfing, sandy beach and tropical foliage in the background. 

We can see but not clearly discern the text reflected in Hunter's glasses. He stops typing, stares at screen, taps keyboard. The text in his lenses gives way to color.  

OVER HIS SHOULDER the screensaver shows the same surfer girl in softball uniform, on the mound, ready to pitch, staring in at the catcher, the umpire and camera. Hunter smiles at the picture, powers down computer, leaves into hall, SHOES SQUEAKING. 

INT. KITCHEN - MOMENT LATER

State of the art appliances and stone countertops. Bananas in a wooden bowl that shares the center island with a set of keys, stack of mail, Sunday New York Times. View into adjacent dining room. View through window over sink to grill, four chairs around table under shade on the patio that gives way to xeriscaping bordered by a low stone wall, open space beyond. Door from kitchen to walkway to patio. 

SHOE QUEAK before Hunter enters, gets a plastic water bottle from the refrigerator, finishes it, crushes the bottle, puts it in the plastic bag he pulls from a bin the bin in a closet, ties it off at the top, sets it down, lines the bin with a new bag, closes closet, leaves into hall with full bag.