The Watcher (Friday Fictioneers)

THE DETAILS:
Friday Fictioneers: 1 picture, 100 words, scores of people from around the world sharing their creativity and vision. Feel welcome to join in; visit Rochelle Wisoff-Fields HERE to find out how.

THE PROMPT:
This week’s wintry photo prompt courtesy of, and copyright by, one of my Instagram friends, Dale Rogerson.

It’s been a while since I “Fictioneered” so here I go with . . .

THE STORY:

The Watcher (100 words)

Tom and Linda went to sleep at 10:20. No sports; just news, weather and lights out. Forty minutes later 12-year-old Bill’s TV flickered off.

You’d think I actually knew the Belder family, huh? I’m just a good watcher and I pay attention.

People nowadays are so careless. Taking things for granted and making the least complicated and safest assumptions. They ignore signs. They ignore police warnings.

They never think about people like me watching them.

Half-diamond pick, in and out, voila. They make my life so much easier.

It’s sad they won’t be able to say the same about me.

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