"Hole-Man," by Matt Bondurant, in Dallas Noir, edited by David Hale Smith, Akashic Press, 2013.A nice, gloomy tale about the isolation of suburbia, especially in a hot climate where everyone stays locked up in their air-conditioned palaces. Anders lives in the White Rock section of Dallas with his wife, young daughter, and a million mosquitoes. When he realizes the skeeters are breeding in his neighbor's swampy swimming pool - and this is druing a West Nile outbreak -- he starts taking an interest in what's going on in the houses around him. Maybe too much interest, according to the scary men who claim to be there to do roof and yard work...
Very satisfying story.
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