Shadows from the corner of my eye
Are you ever sitting, maybe eating, maybe reading, maybe doing something else fairly quiet and notice a movement out of the corner of your eye? You turn and there is nothing there. Does it happen to you frequently? It has been happening to me a lot, in the house in Ottawa, over the past week. Many times each evening, I will perceive a movement and when I turn to look - nothing. Almost nothing. It is fast. It vanishes without a trace; leaving me frustrated as I hunt for it because I know it was there. At first, I thought I was going mad. But I have seen them. I know they are there and I am not mad. It is not alone. There are many of them and as I hunt for one, another will tease me from the periphery of my vision, distracting me, pulling me away from my prey. But I am persistent. I have caught some and killed them. I will catch them all and destroy them. They beckon me and I follow them. I pursue them throughout the house. I don't know where they came from, but I know where I am sen...