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    Grow House
    Grow House
    Grow House
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    Grow House

    By John McFetridge

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    Stand-off in a suburban grow op.

    Freddie is robbing the place, Victor has come to kill him, Steve is caught in the middle and Holly is looking for a quiet evening at home.

    Any house in any neighbourhood could be a grow house...

    A novella from the author of the novels Dirty Sweet, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Let It Ride and the novellas East Coast and Barbotte.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn McFetridge
    Release dateJul 23, 2010
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      Grow House - John McFetridge

      Grow house

      by

      John McFetridge

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Copyright © 2010 by John McFetridge

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      GROW HOUSE

      Steve Barrett had been back from Afghanistan two weeks when he got back to stealing cars, this one a brand new BMW X5, leather interior, V8. What he did was, he stood around the parking lot of the Vaughn Mills Mall in north Toronto until some woman pulled in driving it and he followed her inside. Then he gave a couple of teenagers fifty bucks to steal her purse and while she was giving the mall security guard shit for half an hour, Steve drove the car to a garage on Dufferin owned by a biker named Danny Mac who gave him ten grand cash.

      It was the same kind of independent thinking the army sent him home for showing. What the fuck did they expect him to do in Canada?

      Now, less than a month later, he was driving north on Avenue Road in a Jaguar XJ, British Racing Green, slowing down in front of the Four Seasons, looking for his girlfriend, Summer, and there she was, looking like every other twentysomthing blonde in Yorkville; expensive skirt suit with the skirt way too short showing off fantastic skinny legs and a nice ass, the little jacket buttoned up to show

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