The Summer People by Shirley Jackson
An older couple who have spent every summer in a close-knit coastal village decide to stay on past Labor Day, only to find the town’s easy warmth evaporating as shops and services shut down, neighbors grow politely distant, and small conveniences and help disappear. Increasingly isolated and unnerved, they discover that the community’s friendliness was conditional on the season, and that lingering beyond the unspoken rules leaves them vulnerable to a quietly hostile, exclusionary social order that insists — sometimes subtly, sometimes brutally — that the summer people must go.
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