Friday Flash – Boxing Clever
The glass of a scope glinted on the roof of another skyscraper.
‘Got you.’ Vincent tagged the location, sat behind the parapet and uploaded his data.
Who watched the watchers? Vincent knew the answer to that one. He wondered how far it went but in all honesty lacked the imagination. He shrugged it off, he’d never seen any evidence. Being watched was part of the territory.
The important thing was, the Watched knew nothing of this hermetic world.
Something punched through the parapet, through Vincent. It came to him, during that long last moment, she’d known all along.
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No. 26 in the ‘Beyond the Streets‘ sequence – a series of 100-word flash fiction.
Short and to the “point.” Sorry, but I couldn’t resist! 🙂
Nicely done!