The Weight of the Survey Stake: A Story of Asphalt, Boundaries, and Unyielding Restraint
CHAPTER 1: THE TACTICAL OFFSET The front left tire of the sedan sat exactly three inches inside the yellowing tufts of crabgrass that marked the county right-of-way. Through the dust-filmed windshield, the world was a study in baked, desaturated tones—the pale gray of old concrete, the dry rot of splitting porch steps, and the glint…