Banish Boundaries

A friend's message was blocked and deleted in one go, like they never existed in the first place, the double strike of rejection was more than just a simple goodbye

The town square was turned into a no-man's-land overnight, with every shop closed and patrols everywhere, the elders said it was a banishment older than any written law

On the app, the hashtag got buried under complaints and bans, users joked that the algorithm itself had a personal vendetta against the trending topic

At the meeting, her idea was met with folded arms and a list of rules, someone even whispered that proposing it was like inviting chaos into the tidy team

She left the house with a silent vow, no looking back and no word spoken, the family called it a quiet split, but everyone knew it was a full stop on their life together