Well, if it were my story I'd do both. You're a very talented and descriptive writer so your stories usually beget a hotly anticipated sequel. Also, a deserved one, as you know, a stricter regiment helps you focus on a story more
Where I'd expand the original story is on two fronts: homeowner associations usually have ready cultural scripts for how to behave, so it'd contain if the husband and wife are recent arrivals, or she knows her rival's mother too, which in many suburbs would make sense. Yet the other thing is more important, and this is the part where others throw rotten tomatoes, me being anal on a tad more realism: it's a sexual fantasy, but tbh most Americans are tolerant of non-heterosexuals, not accepting, so the sudden let's get at each other sexually caught me by surprise. Don't change any of that, but I'd love to suspend my disbelief if it's established they have such inclanations.
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