Serialization: "Hawkins County" Chapter 1 - A Novel of the 1970s, the Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

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While Stacey and Connie savored their moment of male bonding, Ken conducted a brief search of the main floor. Besides the kitchen, it consisted of a living room, a bathroom, and a small bedroom where Stacey passed out most nights. An old black-and-white TV sat in one corner of the living room attached to a wire that snaked through the window to the antenna on the roof. What furniture there was had torn upholstery and was cuffed or broken entirely. Like the kitchen, the other rooms were filthy. They were full of junk, unwashed clothes, garbage, mice and other vermin, and reeked of the unimaginable. A "garbage house" is what the public health officials called a sty like this. The probation officer thought it should be condemned and burned to the ground. "What a pig pen," he muttered. (to be continued)

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