Fever Beach

One September day, Dale Figgo picks up a hitchhiker in his truck. Figgo drives into an expensive neighborhood and insists that the hitchhiker toss baggies containing sand and antisemitic flyers onto people’s lawns. A homeowner steps in front of Figgo’s truck and confronts him, calling him a “scumbag Nazi.” Figgo hits the man with his truck and drives away. As soon as possible, the hitchhiker gets out of the truck and runs.

Twilly Spree is on a flight into Orlando. He notices an attractive woman across the aisle and tries to strike up a conversation with her. She firmly tries to shut down the conversation, but he persists. When the plane lands, Twilly finds a magazine the woman has left behind and pockets it. He is pleased to see from its address label that she lives locally, in Tangelo Shores.

The woman from the plane, Viva Morales, heads to the townhouse where she is renting a room from Dale Figgo. Viva intensely dislikes Figgo and his beliefs, but she judges him to be mostly harmless, lacking the intelligence to do any serious harm. When she moved to Florida a few months previously, Viva was deeply in debt after her former husband stole all her money and left her.