Loose Ends: Shortcuts make for short fuses

“Get out of my yard!” the angry male voice drifted across the wide expanse of green grass.
“Oh, I knew you wouldn’t mind,” the woman answered, but stopped talking when she looked up to see the man wasn’t laughing. He went back into the house.
Her circuitous route to avoid the mud had driven her farther from the culvert and onto someone’s lawn. There appeared to be no way she could do what…