My Neighbor Called the City Over My Fence, but the Inspection Ended With Her in Tears

tell you what documentation they need.”

He nodded, not unkindly, and walked back through Claudia’s yard to the front and to his truck and drove away.

The sound of the truck faded.

Claudia and I stood in her yard in the November cold beside the arbor that had just become, without any deliberate action from either of us, a code violation. A blue jay landed continue reading …