Copyright Ted Strutz
They’ve come a long way, cameras today.
Thirty years ago, the images were grainy, occasionally blurred, even though I took serious risks to get close, dodging behind bushes, scaling towering boundary walls.
These days, even on the darkest nights, I can indulge myself from a clearing on the hillside, way off the beaten track.
I’ve an entire bedroom filled with your image. I could show you a complete record of your life, from ungainly childhood to resplendent womanhood. You’d be amazed, enthralled… captivated probably.
But if I did, I’d have to kill you.
Just as I did with your mother.
I love an early start to my day! Thanks to Rochelle for her hard work herding the Friday Fictioneer cats every week. I only have one to herd and I know how hard that can be.
Come and get me… if you think you’re up to it…
castelsarrasin 
You have a wicked mind, Sandra. That was deliciously chilling
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Thank you Neil. I must get it purified when I get a moment.
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Ooh, Sandra. This was so chilling. You never know who could be out there watching you or someone you love. It makes this mama bear want to grab her cubs and hide them in a cupboard.
xx Rowena
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Yes, this was not the week for me to replace my heavy lined curtains with semi-sheer drapes, no matter how full I made them. 😦
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Ha! I’d be sticking the old ones back pronto!
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eeks – creepy ending –
and sandra, very cool the way the short piece changed three times.
First – we feel the splendid technology – then – second – we think we are with a parent (perhaps) who has documented their child’s life – and then third, bam! the creepy twist.
very well done
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Thank you, and for reading into the story.
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🙂
my pleasure and hope you have a nice week
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Very wickedly done and i must i simply enjoyed this offering from you Sandra.
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Thanks, Neel. I appreciate your visiting.
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What a thoroughly horrible person. I would love to read more!
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Dear Sandra,
Well that was certainly a creepy start to my day. No doubt this guy has a zoom lens and does some magnificent close ups. I’m not ready for mine, Mr. DeMille. 😉 Well constructed story (although a little negative 😉 ) A brilliant snapshot of a psycho.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Your response was more inspired than my story, Rochelle. Puns, allegories galore! 🙂
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I can never resist having a little pun. 😉
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Rochelle went a little snap-happy on this one, didn’t she?
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She just needs the exposure, I guess. 😉
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Buahaha! Anything to be in the spotlight… 😉
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OMG!
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Stalker alert.
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Oh, goose bump story. Is it her father? Her mother’s frustrated lover? Doesn’t matter, what he’s doing is evil and I hope he falls head first off one of those high walls!
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He’s evil OK, though I haven’t made my mind up what his relationship is. 🙂
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So utterly creepy and compelling to read.
Sandra is sending them to Heaven
All’s right with the world
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I woke up with murder on my mind. I blame it on CE Ayr – he’s not been pulling his weight just recently, so I thought I’d better take one for the team.
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Your story hints that the stalker is considering telling his victim. Run, woman, run!
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You never know what’s on the minds of these people. 😦 Thanks for reading.
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That was a darker shade of black, Sandra. Expertly done, a lovely build and then a killer last line. Very creepy
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Thanks Lynn. 🙂
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My pleasure 🙂
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Here we are thinking you are taking us on a photography course…
…. more like a stalking course! May she never find out!
Well done you wicked lady!
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Thanks for reading, Dale. 😉
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😁
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Brilliant creepy story. A novel in a hundred words. And hello lovely herded cat. ☺
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Thank you. Sophie says “Hi”.
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A stalker from the word go. Where will it all end…
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Indeed.
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Yikes. He’s a little creepy.
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More than a little I guess. 😦
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Wow! This fellow is a serial stalker and obviously a serial murderer, too. Thanks for the wild ride. Now I have to look over my shoulder.
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🙂 Thanks for reading Alicia.
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wonderfully chilling Sandra. I will also keep my curtains drawn tonight.
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I was working on my new curtains and wondering whether they would be opaque enough. That must have prompted the idea. Thanks for reading.
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Oooooh, that was twisted, and I loved it! Does that make me a bad person? 🙂
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It makes you my kind of person. And that might just possibly be bad. 🙂
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Ha ha ha
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Sandra, that was so creepy.
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Thank you!
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This is chillingly great.
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Thanks, Liz.
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Oh boy. Stalking (and murdering) through the generations. Very creepy.
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There’s nothing like dedication… 😦
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That did not go anywhere near where I thought it would! Very well done!
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That’s good then. Thanks for reading.
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Oh no, please don’t take my comment the wrong way. I loved the direction it went. Just took me by surprise is all.
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I didn’t take it the wrong way at all, Curt. I was quite pleased, in fact, as I thought it to be fairly heavily foreshadowed. 🙂
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Sorry, I must have been sleeping when i first replied to your comment. Thought you said, “that’s not good.”
Please disregard my delirium.
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the end made me shudder. what a twist.
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Thanks for reading.
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So, that’s what happened to Mama Bigfoot. I always wondered how she met her demise.
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Absolutely chilling!
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You’ve got that progression from mundane to scary stalker down pat.
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Eeeep, creepy as hell. Gosh I will have nightmares over this one. Well told but cricket what an evil…
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Whoa! Frighteningly creepy peeping tom-stalker-guy.
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A spine-tingling story!
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Halfway through, the story took a dark twist. Very engaging story. It left me with chills! =)
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That was absolutely bone-chilling… a stalker sounds terrifying.
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Creepy and chilling. A wonderful portrait of a stalker, and murderer it seems. I hope he can stay away from his prey and let her live on in oblivion.
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Oh, no, how horrid! Well done!
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