The Hen House -- Ch.1

The Hen House ? Ch.1

Joan in the Desert
By Reddear

In Las Vegas

My name is Joan. For the purposes of this story you don?t need to know my last name, though I shall tell you a few details of my history and myself as they become pertinent to my tale.

To start, I graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas not long ago with double BAs in accounting and computer science. As our story begins I was 22 years old and hadn?t found a full-time job in the year since I left college. The economy sucked, of course, but I can?t remember when it didn?t. I?d been scraping by with sporadic temp agency bookkeeping gigs and a few months of H