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Roughing It

Mutant bedbugs have infested homes and apartments worldwide. Lester Johnston checks his wife out of a mental hospital and hits the road as a nomadic lifestyle is the only way to stay ahead of the poisonous insects.

Cars and trucks lined the freeway frontage road for a couple of hundred feet, waiting for fuel at a Qwik*E service station. An additive, invented before the…