The Fence at 73 Magnolia Lane

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In the summer of 2021, I house-sat for an aunt in a town called Ridgewood. The fence between her yard and the neighbor's was old chain-link, nothing special. But the neighbor kept coming out to talk to me about it. Every afternoon, same time, same story: the fence was wrong, it had been moved, the posts didn't match the property line. I didn't care until I saw the photograph. A rental listing from 1998 showed the fence two feet closer to my aunt's house, with a dogwood tree I'd never seen. The neighbor hadn't moved the fence. The fence had moved itself. This is a story about boundaries that don't stay where you put them, about a tree that blooms in the wrong season, and about a woman who kept talking to a fence because she couldn't stop seeing what it was doing. I saw it too, by the end. I saw the posts shift at night, the chain-link ripple like water, the soil turning over where nothing had been planted. I don't know who built that fence or why it wanted to grow, but I know I won't house-sit again. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #WrongHouse #Episode74 #Ridgewood #Fence #ChainLink #Neighbor #PropertyLine #Dogwood #1998 #Summer2021 #Boundaries #Shifting #Soil #Photograph #RentalListing #Luna Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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