cat stares at random corner for a long time / oh god a ghost
A Paranoid Parrot post.
The car behind has taken the same three turns as you. You are being followed. You take a fourth turn, into a supermarket car park, just to be sure. It's your neighbour. She waves. You live alone. You still lock the bathroom door. You still check behind the shower curtain. Nobody has ever been behind the shower curtain. Yet. The essay is saved. You save it again. You email it to yourself, then copy it to a USB stick you keep in your sock drawer. The deadline is in three weeks. Your boss messages "can we have a quick chat tomorrow?" and nothing else. You spend the night drafting a resignation letter. In the morning she asks if you'd like a parking space. **Why it caught on:** a blue hyacinth macaw glancing over its shoulder, a photo online by 2004 from a Worth1000 Photoshop contest, took off from 4chan in 2010. Nobody is ever actually in danger: it's just what your brain does at 2 in the morning, with better plumage.