My Malicious Neighbors

Nancy Fisher has lived alone in her apartment for two years, and the neighbors next door change as often as the seasons. Her newest neighbor, Shirley Lambert, has just moved in with her eight-year-old son, Mike Lambert, and already the hallway reeks of rot. Shirley strolls into Nancy's home, declares it the perfect playroom for her boy, and offers to let the old woman move into her living room for free.

Nancy, known around the building as the neighborhood menace, is having none of it. She drives Shirley out with a kitchen knife, snaps Mike's toy sword in half after he jabs her with it, and refuses to apologize. Then one morning she opens her door to four garbage bins piled outside, reeking of mold, maggots and rotting fish. She kicks them over.

Soon the residents' group chat is ablaze: Shirley demands one hundred dollars from every household and blames Nancy, and the other tenants pile on. Nancy slowly begins to type her reply.