February 16, 2017, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes a watcher. It can be a sentinel like the Watchman formation that overlooks Zion Canyon, or a Big Brother conspiracy theory. How can you use a watcher to set a tone or present a twist?
When I look down my hallway I catch a glimpse of someone standing there. It happens often enough for me to think it’s real. I am being watched, not like a guardian angel but more like by someone curious about who I am and what I’m doing.
They vanish when I glance up at them, blending into the background, the dark curtains in the back room an ideal hiding spot for them.
I wonder what they make of me, sitting here tapping away. The past trying the fathom the future?
One day they might have the courage to ask.
Written for: https://carrotranch.com/2017/02/17/february-16-flash-fiction-challenge/
Morpethroad 
I felt every one of those eyes watching me as I read!
Wow now that’s a compliment. Thank you miss Florida
I loved it! Any you know that I don’t mince words. 🙂
I certainly do…hope you have a good weekend..😁
I like the idea that the watcher will be the one to reach out — not benevolent, but not necessary malevolent. Good use of 99 words.
Thank you so much….I like that idea too, I have always questioned why it is ghosts have been depicted as malevolent, why can’t they be nice like you and me…??
I think they can be. I knew a nice ghost who wasn’t mean “spirited” at all.
Yes I have a friend who has one she suspects has played a few tricks on respective partners over the years…lol
I wouldn’t be surprised — tricks are quite the ghostly fun.
I enjoyed your take on the watcher, how it can be someone as curious as a writer. The things we could learn from the ghost over our shoulder!
I think the past would find the future unbelievable. I wonder what question they would ask if they were to be asked.
Yes its one to ponder isn’t, I think the reason they never ask is they are probably as perplexed as we are….thanks for stopping by…
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