Easement

Leila Nazari buys the quiet house on the edge of town for the solitude. The back lot ends at a weathered cedar fence and a shared utility easement the county calls a right-of-way. The brush is overgrown. The posts lean. She does not expect the neighbor who walks through the gap like he owns the path.Javier Sosa is thick, copper-skinned, salt already in the goatee, the kind of man who has worked th...