About Picture Window

by Dallas Coleman
19 pages / 3000 words
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With nothing better to do, bored university student Lee starts watching the lady who lives in the apartment across the street. She seems like she might be in some sort of trouble, though Lee doesn't know exactly what. Lucky for him, his lover Alej can be convinced to distract him from his own nosiness. Lee is more than happy to be turned away from his window watching, except... well, what exactly was that menacing shadow he saw creeping up on the lady across the street?

Sample

"She's talking to herself again."

Lee looked out the window, chewed on his bottom lip, watched the curvy little dark haired woman from the apartment across the way in the plate glass door talk, her mouth moving like she was on the phone, wasn't alone, but she was. Wasn't she?

"I'm telling you, she has one of those tiny headsets in, you just can't see it from here." Alejandro chuckled, looked up at him from the futon, the guitar strings still vibrating from where he was strumming. "You're obsessed with her. Are you turning straight?"

"Dip shit." No. No, although she was fascinating. She just seemed like she was in trouble or something, like she was scared of something, maybe. It was creepy. Cool, though.

Really cool.

She waved a couple of times, and he waved back, but he didn't think she saw him, because she was looking at the bushes in front of the apartment. Maybe there was a cat or a raccoon down there or something.

It happened.

Lots of students got a kitten and kept it until they got caught.

"Looks like there's going to be a storm, maybe. The sky's all weird." He loved how the weather could make the sun look like it was the wrong color.

"That'll make it fucking hot, after. I hate summer storms, even though we're supposed to say, well, we need the rain." Alej stretched, strummed his guitar. "You want to walk down to the co-op? Buy something munchy?"

"Maybe later." He didn't want to get caught in the rain, or in the humidity-fest left after.