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eBook Category: Mainstream/Horror Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
eBook Description: On his way home after a hard day at the office, Richard savors his new neighborhood, one of the safest in the city, until he starts noticing strange visitors to his peaceful chunk of suburbia, visitors who seem intent on ruining his idyllic life.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Gothic.net, 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2003

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Words: 3966
Reading time: 11-15 min.
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Richard Tolliver was proud of the fact that his was the first black family to move into the Olde Carriage Ridgewood subdivision in Cary, North Carolina. His job as an electrical engineer at Implement Telecom in the Research Triangle Park, nestled between the three cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, had allowed him to spring past his childhood neighbors from the housing projects of Southwest Raleigh. Many of his old neighbors were still living there, either working one to two hourly, minimum-wage jobs, or working the streets, hustling crack or coke or bags of pot. They'd all been going nowhere fast, Richard knew.

But I made it out, he thought, enjoying the power he felt sitting up high in his Ford Expedition, crawling through eastbound I-40 traffic after work, only seven short miles from home. It was a drive that averaged thirty-five minutes, one way. After escaping the slums of Raleigh, Richard was proud to be able to call himself a resident of Cary.

Richard rolled up his windows and cranked the AC. The humidity of a Southern summer was fast approaching, and he wasn't ready for it. He'd put on fifteen pounds since moving into the management job at the telecom company, spending more and more time in front of his computer, reading status reports and timesheets instead of working on switches and routers.

But the money was worth it, he'd told himself so many times he thought he'd print it out and tape it to his office monitor. Larissa loves the new house. And with Junior on the way, we'll need all the extra dough we can get our hands on.

Richard Tolliver leaned back in his massive sports utility vehicle, letting his foot off the break every fifteen seconds, inching closer to his new home in the gated community of Olde Carriage Ridgewood in Cary, North Carolina.