joeislove's 100-word story for June 13, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 13, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

We are all being watched. This is nothing new. There have always been watchers. Nothing is truly anonymous. If you know how, you can always find someone. Walls become windows more easily than you think. I have always been good at knowing things. Seeing patterns. Predicting the swirls and eddies in data streams. I often wish that I was not. The curse of Cassandra. It feels easy to me, knowing things, but I know most people choose to live with their eyes shut, thinking if they block out the world, that the world will ignore them. There are always watchers.

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