#610 Horned Men- Karl Taro Greenfeld
Bob was both a victim and a perpetrator of the over-leveraged mortgage bubble. So after losing his new house, him, his wife and their daughter are now moving back to their old house that they had been renting to a religious family. That family is not happy about the change and curses Bob.
Bob is crawling around in the attic re-running co-ax cable and cleaning up a crawlspace when he discovers several interesting things. There is a small hole in the wall where he can see into his daughter’s new room, he doesn’t see anything inappropriate and vows to cover the hole without telling anyone. He gets bit by a poisonous spider while back there, a seeming punishment for peeking on his daughter. He also finds a plaster figuring of a devil, a kind of evil totem stashed behind the wall. There are two of them, each with scripture etched on the side.
As Bob, tried to reconcile his new post-bubble life, he tries to fix the sins of his past, and make good on new chances. Some holes however don’t cover so easily, and you never know where evil may be hiding.
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