5st SHORT STORY: "Teddy Bears"
We moved
with my wife to the suburbs about a year ago. We, like many of the people who
live in the big cities, were looking for the peace and quiet, the suburbs offer
so generously. My daily journey to go and come back from my office was now a
way for me to relax. I really loved the large, almost always empty, avenue,
which was adorned on both sides with trees and greenery. I even started
drinking my morning coffee on the way and in the afternoon when I was coming
back, thanks to this route, I was forgetting everything about work and I was
going home calm and without any worries.
Earlier
this month, however, something changed. At a certain point on the route, I
started to feel uncomfortable. I had the strange feeling that someone was
looking at me...
by ©James Antoniou 2018
