My Neighbors Treated My Fence Like It Was Theirs Until I Finally Put a Stop to It

A pause. Longer this time. I could almost feel the recalibration happening on the other side of the fence, the moment of working out what had changed and why the fence was no longer doing what it used to do.

The hand withdrew.

I went back to my book.

There was something genuinely satisfying about those two minutes, but I want to be precise about what continue reading …