I come home today and one of my neighbors informs me that a naked woman’s body was found not 100 feet outside my bedroom window, obscured by the empty house that no one lives in that is next door to mine. I keep thinking about the fact that I tend to leave my bedroom window open most nights with the shades open to let in a fresh breeze since no one lives on that side of my house. No one can tell me if the body was decomposing or not, but I recall a taking a nap one evening last week and being awoken by a racket outside my window in the other house’s yard. I peeked to see what was going on and I saw the shadow of some guy (I couldn’t clearly see him because it was so dark out) fiddling with something in the other yard and he must have seen my silhouette because he stopped what he was doing and high-tailed it away from there. I am trying right now to convince myself that these two events are completely unrelated.

I’m sorry that the woman lost her life, but that doesn’t stop me from being creeped out that someone would dump a body so close to my home.