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You see in the newspaper that the incidence of bedbugs in fancy hotels has skyrocketed. People come home from vacation covered in itchy, oozing sores. Rich people. And you were worried about the dead p********e stuffed into the box spring in a hotel, the one you saw in the movie Short Cuts. You have never once thought about bedbugs. But now you’ll think of them every time you stay anywhere but home. You are relieved for a minute that your wife is gone. This is the kind of information she would have taken and run with, the kind of information that would have meant you had to pack your own sheets and pillows and pillowcases whenever you went on a trip.
But you don’t go anywhere now. Not anymore. Not alone. Just walk the neighbourhood with your dog. And there are strange things in the n
