Glimpses: The Best Short Stories Of Rick Hautala - Plot & Excerpts
Calling it “Clean-up Week” was a bit of a misnomer because it usually took the town workers closer to a month to go around, sort through everything, and haul off the used and broken TVs and kitchen appliances, the construction and destruction debris, the rusted lawn mowers and snow blowers, and all the other unwanted junk people dragged down to the street from attics, basements, garages, and work sheds. And like they say: “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” so a lot of people—mostly in pickup trucks—make the rounds and paw through whatever their neighbors are throwing away in hopes of finding something they can either use or fix up to re-sell. Jeremy McCough wasn’t one of those people. In fact, every spring he made fun of what he called the “rednecks,” who drove around and scavenged the piles of junk. He wondered if they ever found anything useful, or if the junk they collected just made its way back out to the curb during next year’s Clean-up Week.
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