Model Home

This short story was well written and served as an entertaining enough diversion (I enjoyed it enough to finish it, after all), but lacked sympathetic characters, was ultimately inconclusive, and felt about as substantial as the home and garden shows it satirizes—which is to say I'd spend another 30 minutes reading a story like this if it were available in a dentist's lobby or the waiting area at a car dealership, but wouldn't seek anything similar out independently. More ardent fans of HGTV and its hosts' interpersonal drama may find their mileage varies.