Photography: John Francis Peters

Bullhead City, Arizona Was a Retiree Paradise. Then Came a Biblical Plague of Flies.

Meet the small, greasy insects upending life in an idyllic community.

Brendan Borrell
OneZero
Published in
15 min readJun 5, 2019

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WWhen Craig Vallon and his wife Denise moved to Bullhead City, Arizona, in 1973, he thought he was the luckiest man in the world. The two had met as teenagers in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Denise was a party…

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Brendan Borrell
OneZero

Journalist based in Los Angeles. Working on a book about the coronavirus vaccine race. www.brendanborrell.com