Crunch: The Stakeout

Writing Exercise #18

Still bad at planning, so taking a page from one of my prompts.

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Crunch: “That’s quite enough of that”

The man was walking down the street. He had headphones in, looked like he was going for a jog. I almost wrote him off—but outside of the house, he stopped. He gave a quick, two-second scan around him, then walked up the steps to the front door. He knocked quickly and quietly. The door opened just a crack, a familiar hand reached out, grabbed his collar, and pulled him in. The door closed.

I put the binoculars down, my hands were shaking. I looked over at the passenger seat. A gun, and a baby monitor, resting placidly beside each other. The one, to confirm what my eyes saw, and my heart knew. The other…I hadn’t quite made up my mind if it was for him or me.

I was paralyzed. Adrenaline pumped like jet fuel through my veins. My ears pounded with a mix of grief and uncontrollable rage. I’d let the Rage out once before. That’s when she started looking at me funny. That’s when things changed. But then again, she always blamed me. Those texts that I saw on accident—that business card in her purse. Somehow those were my fault. That’s why the Rage came out at all.

I twisted the gold band on my finger. Unsure what it meant. I looked again at the passenger seat, at the baby monitor, the gun.

I reached slowly for the baby monitor. I turned it on. I turned it off.

That’s quite enough of that.

I drove away.

(250 words)

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