The Observer
Written for the Reedsy Short Story Contest #134
Prompt: Your character, by chance or habit, peers through a telescope. They see something unusual — what is it?
“Evan wiped his glasses with his sleeve, the deep void on his screen consuming his thoughts. Maybe if he glared at the blank photos enough they would show him what he wanted. Instead his reflection stared uselessly back at him as he slid his glasses back over his nose. The black photo acted like a mirror, capturing his sullen face in a black box of pure nothingness. Except…
Except where were his glasses?”