Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Murder in a Small Town: The Peeper


The Peeper

           
“I think someone is coming”, the man says to himself. The sound of human voices echoes across the yard from the main house. This shadow man conceals himself stealthily behind the slat-boards in the barn.
            This spectral figure is witness to some of the most horrific acts of incest by the owner of this farm and his 30-year-old daughter one could imagine. Fornication, fellatio, sodomy, and other acts of perversion are just some of the practices witnessed by this hidden spectator. Sometimes the farmer’s wife is present and watches the incestual debauchery with coveting eyes.

On other days the stranger watches the innocence portrayed by the seven-year-old granddaughter imagining tea times with stuffed animals and kings and queens of made-up lands.

He enjoys these times and imagines himself playing along with her as she pretends to cook for royalty, hand out refreshments, and provide grandiose entertainment, such as drama and amateur ballet. 
He wishes to be her king. She would be his beautiful princess to slay dragons for and shelter from the evil world. His head throbs and he starts to rub it but stops suddenly as he catches sight of the live-in housekeeper walking towards the barn with the baby. He looks with loathing at the plain-faced woman with the large, bulbous nose and child. Particularly the child. He discreetly massages his temples. A chill wind blows through the slats.

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