#491 An Intrusion- Tim Wirkus
This was in the 2013 Best American Non-Required Reading
under the subheading: Best American Advertisement for a Home Security System.
Mike and Julie are a happy young couple managing but barely to eke out their
mortgage payments. They come home one day to find an envelope of pictures
tacked to a wall inside their home. They didn’t do it themselves, and nobody
else has keys:
“The pictures showed a young couple engaged in a series of
mundane domestic pursuits—standing together at a sing washing dishes, reading
on a couch, playing cards at a dining room table, changing a light bulb in a
floor lamp. The problem was that the couple—who were not Mike and Julia—were
doing all these things inside Mike and Julie’s house.”
Creeeeeeepy! Makes me think of a Davis Lynch movie. They
change locks, call the police, but the pictures keep coming until they move out
and eventually break up. Some couple just cant handle the little mysteries of
life.
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