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My name is Stuart Nichols, but most people call me Stu. I'm a contractor -- a fairly good one, as a matter of fact. The kind who would, while doing other work, replace your broken faucet for free with one left over from a previous job.

I hated Mondays . . . well, maybe that wasn't entirely true. I didn't hate Mondays. I hated this Monday in particular; because of the rain, because of the unconventional circumstances of the job, and because deep within my gut, a feeling of dread began to grow. And my gut was seldom wrong.

I slogged across the rain-soaked yard, each footstep resulting in a watery pool gathered around it. The chill of an intense storm enveloped my senses. A dozen more trips, I supposed, and I'd have everything I needed inside. As I bemoaned my lack of a raincoat, I flung a bag of mortar over my shoulder and ran toward the respite the front porch provided.

The job, tiling the family room floor of this two-bedroom ranch on the south side of Phoenix, should have been easy. Admittedly, it wasn't. Since starting out on my own, this had been one of the most peculiar projects I had ever seen. Peculiar in my business typically meant problems. And problems were, well . . . a problem.

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