“It must have triggered the security light in the front of the house. I think that’s what woke me up. Or it may have been the hiss of static.
At first, I thought the static hiss was coming from the TV downstairs. As I descended the stairs I remembered none of our TVs make that sound anymore. I could still hear the static. The sound was coming from outside the front door.
I looked through the peephole and I’m sure I saw a figure disappear into the darkness at the end of the walk. I noticed a small, old TV on our porch. The screen was filled with white snow and the static sound became deafening.
Then, when I opened the door, everything was quiet and that little screen was black. “
-Tony Barrington, 2019









