Meet Eric. He has a house in the suburbs with a beautiful garden that he doesn't care about, a wife he hates, constant psychotic hallucinations, and a compulsion to torture and murder other people. He can safely be said to be living the American nightmare. Even his simple pleasure of mowing the lawn is denied to him when his lawn mower breaks down. This short story is a dark and humorous tale of the horror lurking in the American psyche from the amazing mind of Ben Arzate.