There were twelve letters from Carlton every year, one a month. Some were short, and others were long. Carlton often sent a new story or chapter he was currently working, sharing his private work with Jax. The letters talked about Carlton’s mundane life on the island and nonfiction tales of its visitors, which included the Bronx clay artist Holly Minford, a biochemist from Mensa named Oliver Rash, and a famous male photographer nicknamed Ross, although his real name was Rosenthal Prestinghouse.
Almost all twelve letters told a long love story about Carlton’s affair with the photographer. Carlton and Ross had become great lovers on the island, dining naked in the moonlight, making love on the sand in the middle of the hot afternoons, and taking long walks along Carlton’s private beach, ski
