Tag: neighborhood

  • Downhill

  • Pollution

    As I watched the car slowly creep down the darkened street, I had suspicions of who was driving. But as Tyler often upgraded his external devices on a regular basis, I couldn’t be sure. He was always the first one with a new car, the newest phone, the newest clothes. Everything. I never knew what…

  • Repulsed

    I was completely repulsed by the stranger immediately.  There was something about his swagger that triggered me.  It kind of reminded me of how my neighbor walked and even though he was cleared of any wrongdoing by a technicality, I was pretty sure he did murder his wife.  Stacy “disappeared” two days after I heard…

  • Overwhelmed

    The moment I walked into the art gallery, I was overwhelmed.  How could my art hold up to the art already displayed at the Rosewood Art Gallery?  Was I even going to ask my friends and family to come or would I be too embarrassed?  And I had ever wanted to be was an artist,…

  • So Personal

    “What do you think he is going to do next? Do you think he’s going to come over?” Sienna watched our neighbor, Greg, and kept narrating his every move. Greg was new to the street and Sienna had instantly become entranced. She was borderline obsessed.   I was beginning to wonder if I needed to…

  • The Jury

    I knew my family was famous for being judge and jury on every contentious news report, no matter how big or small.  When our neighbor came up missing, her disappearance was the main topic of every discussion for weeks.  And I knew my mother was ‘gardening’ more in the backyard in hopes of overhearing any…

  • The Neighbor

    Photo by Tom Rumble on Unsplash  As the ambulance approached my neighbor’s house, I wondered who it was picking up.  I hoped it wasn’t Mr. Cooper.  He was the only neighbor who understood me, much less talked to me.  Everyone else on the street often pretended I didn’t exist and often crossed the street if we were walking…

  • Accountability

    Photo by Ben White on Unsplash  I always knew my neighbor played the victim. Mainly because Madeline was really good at it and got everything she wanted. She was educated, but cunning. Smart enough to pull a ruse and not get caught. But yet, dumb enough to let me in on her secret. I usually was the secret…

  • Distant Thunder

    I knew there was a fight coming the moment I heard the distant roar.  I grabbed the bag out of my closet and headed toward my car.  I had known I needed to be ready for this very moment for months because of the subtle hints the neighbors had been dropping.  They were upset about…

  • Maple Lane

    As I closed my bedroom curtains, I looked out the window at the snowman I had built that afternoon.  The longer I looked, the more it looked like it was smiling.  But it couldn’t really be smiling, right?  I shook my head, closed the curtains and got into bed, but the longer I tried to…