"Richard Tolliver was proud of the fact that his was the first black family to move into the Olde Carriage Ridgewood subdivision in Cary, North Carolina. His job as an electrical engineer at Implement Telecom in the Research Triangle Park, nestled between the three cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, had allowed him to spring past his childhood neighbors from the housing projects of Southwest Raleigh. Many of his old neighbors were still living there, either working one to two hourly, minimum-wage jobs, or working the streets, hustling crack or coke or bags of pot. They’d all been going nowhere fast, Richard knew." Suburban horror at its most cutting, and most explosive... "Visions of Suburban Bliss" was first published at Gothic.Net, June 2002, and it was an Honorable Mention story in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror vol. 16.