Showing posts with label establishing boundaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label establishing boundaries. Show all posts

Friday, October 23, 2020

Don’t Touch That Fence by Pattie Frampton

Meme with a photo of a fence and a pasture.

Don’t Touch That Fence

I wish she’d told me. As I gripped the cold wire to stare into the pasture at her horse, a chestnut brown gelding with a white marking on its forehead that looked like the number seven, I was enchanted.

And electrified.

Or at least the fence was.

I was a pre-teen city girl visiting my country cousin. I didn’t know there was such a thing as an electric fence. The purpose is to keep your animals safely inside, and the predators outside.

A fence is a boundary.

We all need boundaries, especially as writers.