The Monster in My Building: Part Ten
It should have been a Good Day. It was, actually, until Christine called me. “Hi…” I returned her cheerful greeting with a less enthusiastic one of my own. “I’m sorry, how did you get my number?” “Oh Carly gave it to me. She’s so nice.” I can hear wind in the background, voices, and screams. But not bad ones. Children playing, I think. “Yes, she’s very nice.” My grip tightens a bit around my phone. “So I wondered if you’d like to talk today. About Bob.” “Right. The not-interview.” She laughs. “Right.” “Okay, you can come over…whenever.” “Actually I thought…
The Monster in my Building: Part Nine
Christine takes a deep breath and lets it out quickly. She’s excited. This makes me wary. “I want to interview you,” she says.
The Monster in My Building: Part Eight
I sit on a decorative boulder in the landscaping in front of my building. Sitting with my back to the street would be weird, so I don’t, but I make sure to sit so that I can still see the building in my peripheral vision. Bob can’t get out, I know that. But this isn’t a place you turn your back on.
You Can’t Kidnap a Baby
To my son, Part of me hopes you never read this letter, but I suppose it’s only right you find out someday. Maybe you’ll read this after my death, or I’ll give you this letter when you’re eighteen. Or maybe someday someone will realize who you are, I’ll be arrested, and you’ll find this in my things.
The Monster in My Building : Part Seven
Today is a Good Day. It’s a Saturday, and I have no intention of leaving my apartment. On days like these I like to curl up on my sofa with a cup of tea and a good book, and pretend that the whole world outside my apartment has ceased to exist, never existed at all, in fact. Not only does my apartment building* not exist, but the world beyond it as well. No reason to ever leave my apartment and nowhere go even if there was. My apartment floats in a void, or is embedded in solid rock, or is…
Meet Bob (Kind of)
I’ve had trouble finding the right featured image to go with my current story series “The Monster in My Building.” I suppose I could have tried looking for an ominous image of an apartment building (though honestly that didn’t occur to me until now.) But I wanted to use an image of Bob, the series’ titular monster. The trouble is, Bob’s look is rather unique. I settled on a copyright-free image of a bird-looking monster, though it doesn’t look exactly like Bob as I’ve described him and is only meant to convey the idea of Bob. At my real-life job,…
The Monster in My Building: Part Six
It was a half-day at work. I’m on my way home, and looking forward to binge-watching the back-catalogue of a youtuber I discovered late last night. On top of all that, I’m giddy from the fancy decaf coffee that was definitely not decaf I downed on the bus.
The Monster in My Building : Part 5
“Alright, alright,” Terry waved his hands, drawing everyone’s attention back to the matter at hand and away from me and my long-awaited muffin. “This is getting out of hand. I suggest we table these suggestions until another-“
The Monster in My Building : Part Four
I stagger out of the elevator, my heart still bouncing around my chest like a demented pogo stick from the miniature heart attack Bob so kindly bestowed on me moments earlier. All this could have been avoided if we just did the strata meeting over Zoom
The Monster in my Building: Part Three
Today is a Bad Day, because I have to leave my apartment for a second time after work. I’m an incurable homebody; it’s one of the side effects of living in a situation like this.
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