My Neighbor Built a Balcony Over My Backyard While I Was Away So I Made Him Tear It Down

built that while you were gone,” he said.

“Apparently.”

He walked under the overhang and squinted at the support post. “That’s bold.”

That night I sat at my kitchen table and worked through the city’s zoning regulations. I had never had reason to look at them before, and they were written in the way municipal codes are written, which is to say with the continue reading …