ZACHARY DILLON

I’ll have been a target of the universe. A searing pinpoint of light under the vast lens of the all-seeing Eye.

I’ll have died many times, at hands that were mostly my own.

Once buried alive and shot into space.

Once like a pig drained of blood.

Once torn to smaller and smaller pieces by millions of tinier lives.

I’ll have become a multiple murderer, despite my innocence. My victims will grow easier to kill and harder to ignore.

But that’s all a month away.

Alex is hunting surveillance bugs in his apartment…

Preparing for my bookstore reading this Saturday!

(I’m in the basement because my wife has a conference call upstairs—I hope they can’t hear me!)

Your two-year-old has just learned your name.

…only it’s not your name.

An interactive short story.

Written for ECTOCOMP 2024.

Alex hears a voice out his window…

He believes it’s his neighbors spying on him. Harassing him.

He struggles to catch them, but they burrow deeper under his skin until he’s convinced his tormentors are controlling him from within.

Alex has no idea how right he is.

Based on my personal experience with auditory hallucinations, I Hear You Watching is a relentlessly interior psychological suspense novel about the abyss gazing back.

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