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Michael wants to have a normal relationship with his neighbors but they will not let him.

The Burning House

Michael drove into his neighborhood after coming home from work. He soon drove up to his mailbox and got his mail. He looked through it quickly while sitting in his car, then pulled into his driveway. When he steps out, he notices that the leaves of his neighbor's yard were blown into his lawn. The neighbor was Michael Brooks and he had been ruining his lawn for the last three months. Michael was new to this neighborhood, and moved in with his wife.

Michael angrily stormed into the house and threw the mail on the counter. He was yelling about his new neighbor and how he wanted to move somewhere else. He went into his living room to calm down. His wife came home an hour later and they had dinner. He told her about what the neighbor was doing to their lawn. The wife understood and said that she would to talk to him in the morning.

In the morning before Michael went back to work, his wife went next door to talk to the neighbor. Michael waited impatiently in the living room to hear the news. Ten minutes later the wife came back to tell him the news. The wife stated that the neighbor apologized for what he had been doing and said that he would stop. Michael accepted this, then went to work.

In the afternoon he was driving back home and pulled into the neighborhood. When he reached his house, he saw that there was more cut grass that was on his property. Upon seeing this, he did a U-turn in the street and drove out of the neighborhood. He drove to the closest convenience store and purchased every can of gasoline he could.

When he got back to his house, he left the gasoline in the car, and went inside. He acted normal until late in the night. He slipped out of the house quietly holding a lighter. He opens his car and got out the cans of gas, and headed onto his neighbor's lawn. He poured the gasoline around the perimeter of the house and lit it with the lighter. As he ran to his car, the house goes up in flames.

The firefighters arrive within the hour along with the news teams. Firefighters try to douse the flames out with hoses, while the news teams report on the incident. The police question the wife of Michael for information, but she does not say anything. Michael is never found by the police.