Flash Fiction
Dangerous things, windows – for their transparency and fragility – so tempting from the outside in. I should know, I spend my life looking through them.
I’m doing it now, as I write this blog, staring into secret cyberspaces, into brave new bedrooms. There’s no harm. It’s only looking. Anyone can do it. It’s easy as breathing, getting permission for Remote Administration Tools. I sneak my requests in on free downloads – movies or short stories. People never check the links they click. Have you any idea what you agreed to, when you started reading this? For all you know, my RAT just ran up your digital drainpipe, and is taking control of your webcam and microphone at this very nanosecond.
It’s a great hobby, especially when you work from home, or live alone. I’ve five windows open tonight. My favourite, let’s call her, ‘Window-one,’ has been tap-tap-tapping at her homework for hours, dull-faced, like faces are when they think no-one’s looking. I love that lack of expression, it speaks of intimacy.
She’s stopped tapping now, leaning deep into her screen, revealing downy skin on her upper lip, the silky curl of her pinkish fringe. I move closer in, my face millimetres from her delicious pixels. We exchange an ecstasy of eye contact made all the sweeter because she’s unaware. It’s so intense I’m almost glad when she pulls back, coquettes her head to take a selfie, then smiles as the responses bing, tweet and snapchat in.
Just looking was never going to be enough though.
Dangerous things windows. You never know what might try to crawl in, through the tiniest crack. I’m biding my time, waiting for one to widen. I only need her name. My her-tailored avatar is waiting, two clicks away from transitioning into her actual world.
Just follow the links to read some more of my flashes
How to Stay Warm in the Winter from Flash Flood 2017
http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/how-to-keep-warm-in-winter-by-jan-kaneen.html
https://horrorscribes.com/2018/01/05/the-twelfth-day-of-christmas-and-overall-winner/#more-1157
https://cabinetofheed.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/exorcisms-jan-kaneen/
Ad Foc Fiction Winner Full Stop https://t.co/kTs7Mwgk74
Molotov Cocktail Flash Felon Winner The London Umbrella Company https://t.co/5GxZDVroYq
Runner Up Retreat West We’re Going to Pick up Daddy https://t.co/URQwntNRtA Runner up Retreat West
Winner Retreat West Flakes
http://www.retreatwest.co.uk/flakes-by-jan-kaneen/
A scary story for Halloween https://occulum.net/2017/09/05/spin-by-jan-kaneen/
This came fifth in the Flash Phenomenon Comp at Molotov Cocktail
https://themolotovcocktail.com/about/archive-vols-1-3/vol-6/flash-phenom/waiting/
