Chapter 1
Bill Jackson woke to the lovely sounds of thumps, grunts, and swearing from next door.
Great. The new neighbor must be moving in.
Groaning, he pulled a down pillow over his head and tried to go back to sleep. Nothing doing. If anything, the elephants over in #3 just stepped up the pace.
He could sleep through the thunder of fighter jets from the base across the road, and the constant traffic on Nellis Boulevard had become nothing more than white noise since he’d moved in a year ago.
But people? People woke him up every time.
He cracked his lids, checked the clock. 5:38 pm. Probably still eighty outside. The October sun would be going down soon, but he still had two hours of sleep coming, dammit!
But, normal people and the normal hours they kept often dragged him from the b
