Michael Malone - Weebly

Marco would build them a house in Astor Heights, too.
And houses for his girls. As he made money,
Marco made plans.
He planned first regional, then national distribution
for his mother's spaghetti sauce. He planned to build
bungalows on the north arc of Lake Pissinowno on land
that Cecil Hedgerow had finally finished buying for him,
lot by lot. He planned to turn Lake Pissinowno into the
Lake Tahoe of Connecticut, to turn Birch Forest and
the marshland into a little subdivision. He believed that
sooner or later Dingley Falls must become one more
bedroom suburb of the great megalopolitan work force,
as the panic to evacuate plague-ridden urban centers
grew with the years. Like Pompeiians racing away from
the tumbling lava, all those who could afford to flee
would crowd the roads leading to nostalgic small towns,
where to be mugged, robbed, raped, or taxed to death
was only a future nightmare. As each town filled,
emigrants would be forced to go farther and farther for
refuge.
When they reached Dingley Falls, Marco planned
to be ready, with sliding doors to decks and Colonial