Watchlist Countdown, Day 10: “What He Was Like” by Alexis Landau

     Once she took a photograph of us, the flash reflecting off the glass and I screamed, which my husband thought unnecessarily dramatic. When my husband confronted her, she explained in a lilting little girl's voice that she was only taking a Polaroid of her cat. After that we hung curtains in the living room and planted more ficus trees along the border of our property.

       from “What He Was Like” by Alexis Landau

In this short story by Alexis Landa...